pale-faced

Example Sentences

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Twenty minutes later, he came back pale-faced and hyperventilating; he even had to put his head between his knees to keep from passing out.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2021

Cinematographer Tak Fujimoto directed me and a dozen other black-haired, pale-faced actresses to line up before a camera during the interview.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2020

Track one - Lately - features Devlin rapping about insomnia: "Overtired, pale-faced like Michael Myers. Bags underneath my eyes can show the baggage I've acquired."

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2019

Naomi Watts’s nodding-head, wholesome, Nancy Drew mannerisms eventually give way to a figure that’s far more dark-eyed, pale-faced, terrified, and lost—someone for whom the world has become one of disillusionment, anxiety, and terror.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2014

She was pale-faced with bags under her eyes.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck