SALLOW in a Sentence

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For SALLOW, below is one of 47 sentences:
She had pale opaque eyes which revealed nothing and reflected nothing, and her narrow lips were of the same sallow colour as her face.

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 Meanings and Examples of SALLOW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sallow
 a.  unhealthy looking
 n.  any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal
Classic Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1  As he reached the door he met Zeena coming back into the room, her lips twitching with anger, a flush of excitement on her sallow face.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  She looked so small and pinched, in her poor dress, with the red scarf wound about her, and the cold light turning her paleness sallow, that Ethan stood before her without speaking.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
3  She had pale opaque eyes which revealed nothing and reflected nothing, and her narrow lips were of the same sallow colour as her face.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  Jonas Wilkerson, hat in hand, stood beside her, his sallow tight-skinned face hardly concealing the fury of hate that possessed him at being so unceremoniously turned out of the best overseer's job in the County.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  Old and young, talkative and taciturn, rich planter and sallow Cracker, they all had two things in common, lice and dysentery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
6  He had the sallow malarial face of the south Georgia Cracker, pale pinkish hair and washed-out blue eyes which even in delirium were patient and mild.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  Now Jonas shook with a fury equal to Scarlett's and his sallow face was as red as an angry turkey gobbler's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
8  He was thin and sallow faced and his yellow eyes were watery and sunken in creases of loose flesh.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  Their faces beneath their sun-bonnets were sallow and malarial- looking but shining clean and their freshly ironed calicoes glistened with starch.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
10  India leaped to her feet, red flooding her sallow face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
11  She had a broad sallow face, slightly pitted with small-pox, and thin straw-coloured hair through which her scalp shone unpleasantly.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
12  He was not a man to whom the expression of admiration came easily: his long sallow face and distrustful eyes seemed always barricaded against the expansive emotions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
13  Her face looked sallow and swollen in the dreary light, and her dull hair shaded imperceptibly into the tones of her skin.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
14  Her hair was in tousled strings and her face was sallow, creased.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  A tall, dark-eyed, sallow woman, half rose from a couch on which she was reclining.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
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