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
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
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
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 already had the doorknob in his hands, but when the dottore waved toward him, he pushed past Victor and walked, pale-faced and hesitant, toward his father.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
