sallow
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When they film themselves preening on their phones, with the images projected onto the giant mirrors, Claire and Solange use filters that turn their sallow, pinched faces into plump-lipped, high-cheekboned ones that suggest Kim Kardashian.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
The canvas, 5 feet square, imposes the sentiment in a stack of crisp white words over snow-covered mountain scenery, the sky a sallow yellow fading upward into bilious green.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
The yellow-orange stain of surgical antiseptic is sallow on my skin, accented by the remains of purple felt-tip-pen markings that are not hypothetical indicators this time.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2022
She glanced up at the sallow light of the former prison cell and, with a little laugh, quoted me a snatch of Heidegger: “Where there is danger, there grows what saves.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2022
A dull flush of color mounted the sallow cheeks as he looked at Lily.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
His. long lank hair is still brown, makes him look like a smaller, sallower edition of the late Sir Henry Irving.
From Time Magazine Archive
Maybe it was the light, but already I looked sallower, unhealthy.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
Her face was sallower, and there was a long scar, partly hidden by the hair, across her forehead and temple; but that was not the change.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Gertrude grew a little sallower than usual as her black eyes fastened themselves on the girl before her who had hitherto seemed so ductile in her hands.
From Delia Blanchflower by Mrs. Humphry Ward
When Fardorougha entered he was paler or rather sallower than usual; and, on his thin, puckered face, the lines that marked it were exhibited with a distinctness greater than ordinary.
From Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
It was quite unaccountable that Mrs. Deane, the thinnest and sallowest of all the Miss Dodsons, should have had this child, who might have been taken for Mrs. Tulliver's any day.
From The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
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Romeo and Juliet
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The Kite Runner
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