pasty

Example Sentences

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Too often, it arrives over-mashed and under-seasoned — pale, pasty, faintly apologetic.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

Watching Will Ferrell in prison booty shorts showing off his pasty white legs feels like a crazy way to soothe the Sunday scaries.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2025

No chancellor wants to unpick a Budget, as George Osborne had to do in 2012 when he U-turned on the "pasty tax".

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2024

And, of course, the town still cherishes and serves up the pasty.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2024

“You’re all pasty white where your swimsuit covers you up,” she said, her head close to mine and her mouth huge and hollow, and begging for me to stuff hay into it, so I did.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth