blanches

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They arrive at the rustic Strawberry Lodge and as he’s about to propose, he blanches and falters, instead revealing that he’s invited their group of friends to celebrate Bianca’s birthday.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2023

As the chair—Ji-Yoon, played by Sandra Oh—visibly blanches, I guessed gleefully that the “new blood” she would be forced to award the prize of delivering her department’s prestigious lecture would be James Franco, Ph.D.

From Slate • Aug. 24, 2021

Per blanches, and then laughs, remembering the signposts he had seen earlier: “Take notice of the echo!”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 14, 2019

Bayasgalan blanches at the idea of locking up Mongolia's land; the notion of open grasslands where herders and animals roam freely is, to her and many others, the country's essence.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 30, 2019

Adam blanches at this sudden reality check and Brooke raises her eyebrows in a stern rebuke.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman