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Six example sentences with pallid, each labelled with its topic.
The novel opens with a pallid clerk climbing from a basement office into a fog he barely notices.
Literature
Stage makeup left the lead looking pallid under the harsh key light, exactly the fragile look the director wanted.
Movies
A tungsten bulb made every face look pallid on film, so she carried a warming filter in her jacket pocket.
Photography
The boy arrived at the clinic pallid and shivering, and the nurse checked his iron levels before anything else.
Medicine
The painter gave the grieving mother a pallid face against a dark shawl, so her grief reads from across the gallery.
Art
He turned pallid halfway up the hill climb and had to sit on the verge until the dizziness passed.
Fitness
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