pale-faced
Example Sentences
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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
Accompanied by three security guards, he would shuffle quickly into the dock, pale-faced, soberly dressed and appearing older than his 41 years.
From BBC • Nov. 23, 2016
And my former dorm, once home to some 150 pale-faced British girls, with a few Americans tossed in, was now home to a veritable United Nations of accents, skin tones and nationalities, and coed.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2016
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
The eyes of the pale-faced portraits on the walls followed Snape and Yaxley as they strode past.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
