sallow
Example Sentences
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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
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
The haunting figure, his flesh a sallow yellow as if a waxwork, lies surrounded by brown fallen leaves.
From Reuters • Apr. 6, 2022
Greta, a stout woman with sallow skin and black hair that seemed to drip down her head like candle wax, tutted her tongue disapprovingly.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
Vocabulary lists containing sallow
Romeo and Juliet
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The Kite Runner
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