paling

How to use paling in a sentence

Soon the balloon, taking an oblique ascent, hovered over the darkened landscape, and the paling lights also disappeared.

URANIACAMILLE FLAMMARION

Richard danced till the morn was paling, despite two great welts on his forehead.

GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS

Towards the end of May, one lovely evening, we happened both to be out on opposite sides of the paling, both walking slowly.

HONORINEHONORE DE BALZAC

In one corner lay a heap of wood, apparently part of an old paling.

FRANK FAIRLEGHFRANK E. SMEDLEY

Alternately flushing and paling, Xenie stared at him, still clasping the little child to her wildly beating heart.

A DREADFUL TEMPTATIONMRS. ALEX. MCVEIGH MILLER

Never a boy in all the school had crossed that paling at a spring, without laying his hands upon it; but Martin did.

MARTIN RATTLERR.M. BALLANTYNE

It was a little spot, screened by an old moss-grown paling, from the neighbouring garden on the one side and a lane on the other.

His chilly blue eyes watched her face, and saw it paling slowly under his gaze.

THE DEVOURERSANNIE VIVANTI CHARTRES

And, at the moment when his cheeks were paling over some horrid relation, he could hear the whole gang joining in a hearty laugh.

It was evident that the paling had been run across the garden, which must have been very extensive.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985