How to Use pallor in a Sentence

pallor

noun

• The paint was stubborn and left a streaky pallor for the next few days.
  — Eryn Loeb, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
• In grade school, some of Smith’s peers taunted him for his thinness and pallor.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
• Dark skin encircled the woman’s eyes, and her skin had the pallor of someone who had been sick for a long time.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• 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
• His color and pallor didn't look good - gray - and then he was taken to the hospital.
  — CBS News, 13 Aug. 2022
• Charles exits the finale with the pallor of a romantic hero, even if a chastened one.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 13 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The pair already have a pallor just putting the nuclear reactor through the reckless tests.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2018
• It is marked by easy bruising, pallor, and decreased urine output.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 4 Mar. 2018
• It is marked by easy bruising, pallor, and decreased urine output.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 21 Apr. 2021
• In color, the contrast between Kennedy’s youthful tan and Nixon’s grey pallor is striking.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
• 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
• 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
• Beads of sweat soon collected around my forehead as a ghostly pallor overwhelmed my skin.
  — Cornelia Powers, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Something about the powdery pallor, the intelligent brow, the drowsing...
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Even employees at the local supermarket, who had come to know Yeni over the years as a lively customer, had started worrying about her pallor.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Instead of an otherworldly pallor, Najimy opted for sweet pink blush and lush lashes.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 28 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024