paleness

Example Sentences

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Their duets had tender lightness, a watercolor’s fresh paleness.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2023

Each of the victims suffered from "malaise, paleness, fatigue, anorexia, dyspnoea and weight loss," accompanied by a trance-like, delirious state, according to the study.

From Fox News • Nov. 21, 2019

The lion, nine months old when it died, looked a little compressed by gravity and bloodlessness, and its fur had an infant paleness; it could have almost been a shorn sheep.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017

He added: "Now you mention it, the paleness of the skin. I guess that would be the reason I was thinking something clearly wasn't right."

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2016

I blink at the paleness of it against my skin, like a tiny bright moon.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish