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When they film themselves preening on their phones, with the images projected onto the giant mirrors, Claire and Solange use filters that turn their sallow, pinched faces into plump-lipped, high-cheekboned ones that suggest Kim Kardashian.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

The canvas, 5 feet square, imposes the sentiment in a stack of crisp white words over snow-covered mountain scenery, the sky a sallow yellow fading upward into bilious green.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

To Vasily’s left, one man lay against a grass verge next to his bicycle, his face sallow and eyes sunken.

From Reuters ● Apr. 2, 2022

He now believes his braces forced him to mouth-breathe, narrowing his upper jaw and contributing to his sallow appearance and recessed chin.

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2020

Even his voice sounded sallow, if that were possible.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

His. long lank hair is still brown, makes him look like a smaller, sallower edition of the late Sir Henry Irving.

From Time Magazine Archive

Maybe it was the light, but already I looked sallower, unhealthy.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

Her face was sallower, and there was a long scar, partly hidden by the hair, across her forehead and temple; but that was not the change.

From "1984" by George Orwell

When Fardorougha entered he was paler or rather sallower than usual; and, on his thin, puckered face, the lines that marked it were exhibited with a distinctness greater than ordinary.

From Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

Gurr saluted, and stated his business, while the baronet, who had turned sallower and more careworn than his lot drew a breath full of relief.

From Cutlass and Cudgel by J. Schonberg

It was quite unaccountable that Mrs. Deane, the thinnest and sallowest of all the Miss Dodsons, should have had this child, who might have been taken for Mrs. Tulliver's any day.

From The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot