PALLID in a Sentence

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49 example sentences for PALLID, such as:

1. Her siege of illness left her languid and pallid.
2. Next to his tanned face, hers seemed pallid and unhealthy.
3. The flush passed from his brow, and gave way to the pallid hue of death.
4. She curled on the couch a pallid softness in the twilight, and fought herself, and lost the battle.
5. Lily had not been long in this pallid world without discovering that Mrs. Hatch was its most substantial figure.

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pallid
 a.  abnormally pale; lacking intensity of color or luminousness
Classic Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1  But, damn it, she was just so pallid and uninteresting and always the same, beside Scarlett's bright and changeable charm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  The freshly green foliage looked sickly, the dogwood pallid, and the flowering crab, so beautifully pink a moment ago, faded and dreary.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  Lily had not been long in this pallid world without discovering that Mrs. Hatch was its most substantial figure.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
4  "Oh no, but maybe I better," attempted Mrs. Dawson, a tint on her pallid face.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  She curled on the couch a pallid softness in the twilight, and fought herself, and lost the battle.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  She crept away from the hump of bedding that was Kennicott; tiptoed into the bathroom and, by the mirror in the door of the medicine-cabinet, examined her pallid face.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
7  Terrified, pallid, noiseless in stocking feet, he did the kitchen work and the sweeping, his big red hands awkwardly careful.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  After their departure, taking place in inverted order to their arrival, the canvas cloth was cleared, or rather was restored to some hurried order by the pallid steward.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
9  Alice unconsciously dried her tears, and bent her melting eyes on the pallid features of Gamut, with an expression of chastened delight that she neither affected or wished to conceal.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
10  Cora received her new and somewhat extraordinary protector courteously, at least; and even the pallid features of Alice lighted again with some of their native archness as she thanked Heyward for his care.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
11  Glancing narrowly into the more distant darkness, he caught occasional glimpses of visages that loomed pallid and ghostly, lit with a phosphorescent glow.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
12  The youth started up with a little cry when his eyes first swept over this motionless mass of men, thick-spread upon the ground, pallid, and in strange postures.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
13  The flush passed from his brow, and gave way to the pallid hue of death.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
14  He shut the gate quietly after her, and made a spot of light on the dark ground, showing the pallid flowers still standing there open in the night.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
15  But with Mrs Bolton I only feel the downward plunge, down, horribly, among the sea-weeds and the pallid monsters of the very bottom.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence:
1  Her siege of illness left her languid and pallid.
2  Because his job required that he work at night and sleep during the day, he had an exceptionally pallid complexion.
3  Next to his tanned face, hers seemed pallid and unhealthy.