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
A knight, returning from the Crusades to plague-ridden Sweden, is visited by Death, a pale-faced, black-cloaked character.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 2016
The pale-faced man bent low and took the lock from Father MacPhail’s fingers.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
