How to Use pallor in a Sentence
pallor
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The paint was stubborn and left a streaky pallor for the next few days.
—Eryn Loeb, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
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In grade school, some of Smith’s peers taunted him for his thinness and pallor.
—Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
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The glow of the screen cast a sickly pallor on his gaunt face, highlighting the shadows beneath his eyes.
—Adi Robertson, The Verge, 24 May 2023
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His color and pallor didn't look good - gray - and then he was taken to the hospital.
—CBS News, 13 Aug. 2022
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Charles exits the finale with the pallor of a romantic hero, even if a chastened one.
—Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 13 Nov. 2022
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The apparatus around my kid, the oxygen tube in her nose, the crooked little hat on her head, her wormy pallor scared me.
—Matthew Klam, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
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Gloria's comb is the exact powdered red of a fresh stick of gum, whereas Darkness's comb has the waxy pallor of a plastic toy left too long in the sun.
—Marion Winik, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
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The pair already have a pallor just putting the nuclear reactor through the reckless tests.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2018
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It is marked by easy bruising, pallor, and decreased urine output.
—Mike Wehner, BGR, 21 Apr. 2021
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It is marked by easy bruising, pallor, and decreased urine output.
—David J. Neal, miamiherald, 4 Mar. 2018
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In color, the contrast between Kennedy’s youthful tan and Nixon’s grey pallor is striking.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
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Honor White was propped up in the right position for a pneumonic, but her breathing was loud and her pallor was greenish.
—Emma Donoghue, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020
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Shots include the makeup artists air-brushing her toes a nice mottled gray, as well as adding a prosthetic layer to her hands to give them a not-so-fresh out-of-the-grave pallor.
—Molly Horan, Teen Vogue, 15 Sep. 2017
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Beads of sweat soon collected around my forehead as a ghostly pallor overwhelmed my skin.
—Cornelia Powers, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Sep. 2021
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Tycho flinched with annoyance at a wall that had been painted black; along the seams, the pallor of the original timber had become exposed.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
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Something about the powdery pallor, the intelligent brow, the drowsing...
—Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
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In the age of Zoom, people became inordinately preoccupied with sagging skin around their neck and jowls; with the size and shape of their nose; with the pallor of their skin.
—Amit Katwala, Wired, 30 Aug. 2021
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Being pale-skinned is a comic trope for Gaffigan, who regularly makes fun of his pallor.
—David L. Coddoncontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2023
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The chalky material did soften the features for a while, but its highly toxic qualities soon caused a more corpse-like pallor.
—Ethan Croft, The Economist, 13 Aug. 2020
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Her deathly pallor and daringly low-cut dress caused a major scandal when the portrait was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1884.
—Cath Pound, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
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With its pallor, endive embodies the colorless days of winter, but the crisp, slightly bitter petals stand up well to heartier dressings.
—Elisa Ludwig, Philly.com, 8 Feb. 2018
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After noting the jaundiced pallor of Miller’s skin, a doctor cut into the abdomen and examined the internal organs.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2020
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In this capsule, denim is washed using a custom method that rinses the inside more than the outside of the fabric; Ruby describes its interior pallor as akin to a shroud.
—Steff Yotka, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2021
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To avoid accidentally aging themselves, soldiers in front of the camera may have used dyes to wage war—not against the Confederates, but against the ghastly pallor of their own luscious locks.
—Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 5 Dec. 2019
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Instead of an otherworldly pallor, Najimy opted for sweet pink blush and lush lashes.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 28 Sep. 2022
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Terence Stamp, with ghastly pallor and spiky hair anticipating punk-rock style by a decade, scowls and sneers his way through a film awards show until the devil — in the form of a little girl with a haunting grin — catches up with him.
—Glenn Kenny, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2022
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By evening, with a drizzle of rain falling, the neighborhoods in the center of Hong Kong Island had taken on a post-apocalyptic pallor, with wide streets devoid of people and shops and restaurants shut down.
—New York Times, 6 Oct. 2019
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He’s not put off by their sickly pallor, the tattoos on their faces, their inability to make eye contact, their twitching, their inattentiveness.
—Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 21 Dec. 2017
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Symptoms can include easy bruising, pallor, and decreased urine output.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 27 Apr. 2022
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Some images in their Instagram feed show Dalton with a postmortem alien glaze complete with lavender pallor and fully green eyes, and with butterflies applied to her face.
—Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2019
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