pale-faced
Example Sentences
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Twenty minutes later, he came back pale-faced and hyperventilating; he even had to put his head between his knees to keep from passing out.
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2021
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
Track one - Lately - features Devlin rapping about insomnia: "Overtired, pale-faced like Michael Myers. Bags underneath my eyes can show the baggage I've acquired."
From BBC • Jul. 19, 2019
A knight, returning from the Crusades to plague-ridden Sweden, is visited by Death, a pale-faced, black-cloaked character.
From The Guardian • Apr. 24, 2016
He looked at Taisin, pale-faced and stiff in her chair carved out of a tree trunk, and then at Kaede, who had dark shadows beneath her eyes.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
