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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

His skin is sallow, marked with age spots.

From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2023

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

In his late thirties, he was an unathletic, sallow little man.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

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

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

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

There was the same man: his dark face rather sallower and more composed, his frame a stone or two heavier, perhaps, and no other difference. 

From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Gertrude grew a little sallower than usual as her black eyes fastened themselves on the girl before her who had hitherto seemed so ductile in her hands.

From Delia Blanchflower by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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