corpselike

Example Sentences

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Normally a deep pink, this thumbnail-size organ was blanched a corpselike gray.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 21, 2023

Some sufferers also experience high sensitivity to sunlight — described in some depictions of vampires — which leads to corpselike skin.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2021

Divided into four parts, the book focuses on Winge and Cardell’s investigation in its first and final sections, with Winge himself growing sicker and more corpselike every day.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2019

Over the course of the dinner, Finch’s Macbeth sees not one ghost but several; the first time he appears, Banquo is ashen and corpselike.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2015

I liked him immensely, his sullenness, his corpselike color, except when he was lodged in a good mood, when he became overbearing and megalomaniacal.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee