pallor

Example Sentences

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In fact she had powdered herself into an otherworldly pallor, which she now tried to fix by powdering herself even more.

From Literature

Charlie Ledley was even worse: He had the pallor of a mortician and the manner of a man bent on putting off, for as long as possible, definite action.

From Literature

What has many rows of teeth, a terrifying set of jaws and a corpse-like pallor?

From Los Angeles Times

If you know anything about Burton’s movies, you know that they tend to feature characters who embody all the qualities of a sickly Victorian-era child: waifish, sunken doe-eye and gaunt faces with a deathlike pallor.

From Salon

Such is the pallor of grisly discoveries in Northern Ireland.

From New York Times