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
Accompanied by three security guards, he would shuffle quickly into the dock, pale-faced, soberly dressed and appearing older than his 41 years.
From BBC • Nov. 23, 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
The pale-faced man bent low and took the lock from Father MacPhail’s fingers.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
