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adjective

pallid

abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress

In a sentence

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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