How to Use pall in a Sentence

pall

noun

• His world widened, and the pall of the pandemic seemed to lift.
  — Robert Moor, Curbed, 1 Sep. 2021
• The troubled Arm deal hasn’t put much of a pall on Nvidia’s stock.
  — Ian King and bloomberg, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2022
• The pall mall scene in the Bridgerton books is a fan favorite.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 28 Mar. 2022
• Seven horse deaths cast a pall over the race the entire week.
  — C.l. Brown, The Courier-Journal, 7 May 2023
• Even with a good outcome for Wellesley, the episode cast a pall.
  — Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2022
• That's what made the pall cast over the Giants' opener all the more puzzling.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
• But a gloomy pall has been hung over the conference from the onset.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2022
• The string of horse deaths cast a pall for some Derby goers on a mostly cloudy and warm day.
  — Beth Harris, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2023
• The pall of smoke above the valley obscured the stars at night and made the sun appear blood-orange during the day.
  — Tony Briscoestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
• Paris is still under the gloomy pall of the coronavirus, but the city carries this off with élan.
  — Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• And in some ways, this is the saddest, grittiest, stoniest of the bunch, with a pall of closure over the whole film.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2021
• Many of the villagers now live under a pall of grief and fear, still trying to come to terms with the trauma of the attack.
  — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• Despite the pall, Ukrainians have found ways to preserve affairs of the heart amid the clatter of war.
  — Jeff Stein, Samantha Schmidt and Kostiantyn Khudov, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Jan. 2023
• The fall in Chinese chip stocks may cast a pall over the sector globally.
  — Ryan Vlastelica, Bloomberg.com, 10 Oct. 2022
• In the iconic pall mall scene, Eloise and Benedict join the competitive fun on the show.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 1 Apr. 2022
• No fans in the stands, the unseen threat of the coronavirus cast a heavy pall over the competition.
  — Robert Gauthier Staff Photographer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021
• Affleck gets the job done with stoical focus and a heavy pall of sorrow.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023
• And the Olympics only happen once every four years; the empty stands in Tokyo have cast a pall on these games.
  — Sean Gregory/tokyo, Time, 26 July 2021
• The entertainment business may not have turned the page on the labor strife that cast a pall over 2022.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024
• According to Nachman, Harry Sahl cast a pall over his son’s view of the world.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2021
• Seeing their leading rusher get carted off the field could have cast a pall over the team for weeks.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• That Chadwick Boseman died of cancer in August 2020 casts a skewed pall over the film.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• The protests are the first significant sign that the 60-year pall of fear in Cuba is beginning to lift.
  — The Editors, National Review, 12 July 2021
• But news that six people were killed in a parade at Highland Park, Illinois, cast a pall over the event.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
• Heavy clouds covered the sky during the morning low tide, casting Harris Beach in a pall of gray.
  — oregonlive, 17 July 2021
• Anything that will promote and put themselves in a better light than the pall of gloom that has been cast over MLB for too long.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2022
• Demand continues to surge, even as the war in Ukraine – which shares a border with Hungary – has cast a pall over Europe and the rest of the world.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 30 Mar. 2022
• These are the second Games under the pall of the pandemic, but Tokyo was far looser last summer.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• At least 11 people died across the state and vast areas suffered under a pall of thick, unhealthy smoke for weeks.
  — oregonlive, 7 Aug. 2022
• But the mounting anxieties about the perils of AI are casting a pall over the tech industry’s marketing blitz.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024