PALE in a Sentence

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For PALE, below is one of 239 sentences:
Whymper, his face deadly pale, came racing up the path on his bicycle, flung it down in the yard and rushed straight into the farmhouse.

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 Meanings and Examples of PALE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pale
 a.  not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; not bright or brilliant
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I found her very pale and distressed.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
2  The child was pale and wan, but her healthy arms and legs showed that she had suffered less than her companion.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
3  One glance at her pale, frightened face showed him that she had heard what had passed.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
4  One, with a long pale face, was leaning back in the rocking-chair, with his feet cocked up upon the stove.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
5  Whymper, his face deadly pale, came racing up the path on his bicycle, flung it down in the yard and rushed straight into the farmhouse.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
6  She in her striped dress continued him, murmuring, in front of the book cases: "The moor is dark beneath the moon, rapid clouds have drunk the last pale beams of even."
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
7  The large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
8  They were both pale; and there was an answering horror in their eyes.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW
9  It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and a flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
10  "It seems much changed," replied the lawyer, very pale, but giving look for look.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
11  The Fairy palaces burst into illumination, before pale morning showed the monstrous serpents of smoke trailing themselves over Coketown.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
12  Even the coming sun made but a pale waste in the sky, like a sad sea.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
13  She still looked faint and pale.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
14  Here and there, indeed, a fair cheek might turn pale, or a faint scream might be heard, as a lover, a brother, or a husband, was struck from his horse.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  His countenance was as pale as death, and marked in one or two places with streaks of blood.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  I would rather see a young man blush than turn pale.
2  Their version of jazz funk is a pale imitation of the real thing.
3  These shirts come in three different colours: white, pale blue and khaki.
4  Soon the bombers would return, black silhouettes against a pale sky.
5  A single pale blue flower grows up from each joint on a long stalk.
6  Blackbirds' eggs are pale blue with brown flecks on them.
7  Her recent conduct is beyond the pale.
8  I could just make out a tall, pale, shadowy figure tramping through the undergrowth.
9  She has a pale skin which doesn't tan easily.
10  He was listless and pale and wouldn't eat much.
11  I will always be, even if love pale.
12  Maybe people have always lost look very pale in fact also sad when you lose.
13  She had short brown hair and a pale complexion.
14  This latest production is a pale imitation of the original.
15  The pale walls provide a perfect foil for the brightly coloured furniture.