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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

She glanced up at the sallow light of the former prison cell and, with a little laugh, quoted me a snatch of Heidegger: “Where there is danger, there grows what saves.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

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 was a tall, sallow man of middle age.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

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

Chekhov was already changing; he looked haggard, older, sallower.

From Letters of Anton Chekhov by Constance Garnett

She grows thinner and thinner, and sallower and sallower.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope

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