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
  • His skin has the greyish pallor of spoiled beef, dotted with scabs and open wounds.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
  • What has many rows of teeth, a terrifying set of jaws and a corpse-like pallor?
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Already, his story had begun to take on the grim pallor of tragedy.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 28 May 2026
  • In grade school, some of Smith’s peers taunted him for his thinness and pallor.
    — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
  • 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
  • His color and pallor didn't look good - gray - and then he was taken to the hospital.
    — CBS News, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The most common sign is hair loss, but sometimes there has also been a drastic weight loss or pallor.
    — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Charles exits the finale with the pallor of a romantic hero, even if a chastened one.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Beads of sweat soon collected around my forehead as a ghostly pallor overwhelmed my skin.
    — Cornelia Powers, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sharing the same gray pallor to their skin, the pair take comfort in one another as fellow outcasts.
    — Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
  • The condition is marked by easy bruising, pallor, and decreased urine output.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The pair already have a pallor just putting the nuclear reactor through the reckless tests.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Symptoms can include easy bruising, pallor, and decreased urine output.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 27 Apr. 2022
  • In the heyday of her career, her choppy hair, flat chest, sickly pallor and large darting eyes were a manic pixie dream.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • In color, the contrast between Kennedy’s youthful tan and Nixon’s grey pallor is striking.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
  • Paparazzi images of the actor—oversized jackets, signature brown bangs, almost ghoul-like pallor—live rent-free in my head.
    — Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 15 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Instead of an otherworldly pallor, Najimy opted for sweet pink blush and lush lashes.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 28 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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