How to Use pallid in a Sentence

pallid

adjective

• The movie is a pallid version of the classic novel.
• The smoke plume turned the skies above the town a putrid, pallid orange.
  — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2021
• The Steak au Poivre was pallid (wouldn’t serve it to my doggy!).
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
• If the melon is too pallid or splotchy in parts, keep looking.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2020
• Perhaps he was locked in a dark room somewhere, pallid with shock.
  — Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 26 Apr. 2017
• The camera gets right up close to Tom Cruise, whose never-more-perfect skin looks pallid.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 21 June 2022
• The dinosaur-like pallid sturgeon can grow up to 6 feet (1.83 meters) long.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2017
• The swarm has been showing up in recent days in Sin City and at times has had the pallid-winged creatures raining down on streets and rooftops.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 27 July 2019
• In the Cooke, Hope’s tone is pleasant enough — if a touch too pallid to match the soulfulness of Joy Denalane’s vocals.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2022
• The ONE delivered the most true-to-life pictures, with accurate color in spite of the pallid light.
  — Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 11 May 2017
• Vampirism, in this trio of movies, looks like a pallid, pointy brunette who likes to wander the streets of Manhattan while wearing black.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2021
• Will the crust be a caramelised delight or a pallid disappointment?
  — The Economist, 4 Aug. 2020
• Built of marble as pale as moonlight, its rows of pallid stone yield a stunning view of the Parthenon on the nearby Acropolis.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 16 May 2017
• Thanks to the light reflecting off our new wall color, my pale Irish skin was no longer a dewy porcelain but sickly and pallid.
  — House Beautiful, 5 Sep. 2023
• Does that mean that the future of the galaxy belongs to pallid, hyper-aggressive lizards?
  — Seth Shostak, NBC News, 22 May 2017
• Under a pallid, shrunken sun Triton vents plumes of gas into the sky, and wisps of cloud fall as nitrogen snow.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 12 Mar. 2019
• At the center, stretched out in a diagonal, taut between death and life, is the pallid, almost greenish body of Lazarus.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
• Others, their pallid skin shades of blue and gray, were still—save for their skeletal rib cages silently rising and falling.
  — Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2022
• The skin of his outstretched arms is crinkled and pallid, his muscles atrophied.
  — Stephen O’Connor, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• Fast forward to the March launch of Arizona, a fragrance contained in a hefty crystal bottle the color of a pallid-pink sunset.
  — Kavita Daswani, latimes.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• This ethos severs time from space, giving dawn in London the same hour as dusk in Auckland, and binding every place on earth to the cycle of the same pallid blue sun.
  — Longreads, 3 Oct. 2017
• The studios, faced with a pallid fall season, were feeling immense pressure as well.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• The drama, which is set in 14th century France, bombed, grossing a pallid $4.8 million.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 17 Oct. 2021
• According to Knight, the bugs swarming down the Las Vegas Strip are not locusts, but rather pallid-winged grasshoppers, a common desert species.
  — Alejandro De La Garza, Time, 28 July 2019
• Faux protein has evolved past bean-heavy veggie patties and pallid tofu dogs.
  — Esquire Editors, Esquire, 30 Jan. 2018
• The skin is colored in with regular makeup to make a pallid complexion.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2017
• Later, on the streets of the city, that same light seems pallid and sickly to me, an unnatural brightness in which the green lawns and bushes in the front yards of the houses look as if they were made of plastic.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
• The tomatoes were pallid and useless except for their pepper adornment.
  — Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2019
• And then the swastikas appeared—just a few of them, but enough to make Wardle raise the hood of his sweatshirt, retreat into an empty conference room, and shut the door, looking pallid.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2018
• In windowless laboratories underneath the north-campus bar, pallid young men wearing earplugs and T-shirts pushed Nvidia’s microchips to the brink of failure.
  — Stephen Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024