sallow

Example Sentences

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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

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

“For the last 2½ months, we showed the world. … The impossible became the routine for us,” Samoilenko said, looking sallow on the video, his beard grown wild.

From Washington Post • May 12, 2022

The haunting figure, his flesh a sallow yellow as if a waxwork, lies surrounded by brown fallen leaves.

From Reuters • Apr. 6, 2022

His skin was sallow and his bones pressed tight against his skin.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss