sallow

Example Sentences

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His skin is sallow, marked with age spots.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2023

The results were patchy, worsening the effect of my grown-out roots and sallow skin.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022

To Vasily’s left, one man lay against a grass verge next to his bicycle, his face sallow and eyes sunken.

From Reuters • Apr. 2, 2022

The first lady, Mary Todd Lincoln: “a sallow, fleshy, uninteresting woman in white laces, & wearing a band of white flowers about her forehead, like some overgrown Ophelia.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2020

Her skin—and Autumn’s—is more sallow; mine is bisque white.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter