pale-faced
Example Sentences
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Cinematographer Tak Fujimoto directed me and a dozen other black-haired, pale-faced actresses to line up before a camera during the interview.
From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2020
"We have nothing to say. Everybody has seen what has happened," says one man, pale-faced and teary-eyed.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2017
And my former dorm, once home to some 150 pale-faced British girls, with a few Americans tossed in, was now home to a veritable United Nations of accents, skin tones and nationalities, and coed.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2016
Naomi Watts’s nodding-head, wholesome, Nancy Drew mannerisms eventually give way to a figure that’s far more dark-eyed, pale-faced, terrified, and lost—someone for whom the world has become one of disillusionment, anxiety, and terror.
From Slate • Oct. 24, 2014
Fie was a minute in answering, and when he did, he looked all around for his visitor, pale-faced and trembling.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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