sallow
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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
The haunting figure, his flesh a sallow yellow as if a waxwork, lies surrounded by brown fallen leaves.
From Reuters • Apr. 6, 2022
Later, his second cousin, the sallow “master of sarcasm,” Rep. John Randolph of Roanoke, does his darnedest to replace Madison with the seemingly supple Monroe in the race to succeed President Jefferson in 1808.
From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2020
I find every imperfection: her wispy hair, her hollow cheeks, her sallow skin, the too-slow beat of her heart.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Vocabulary lists containing sallow
Romeo and Juliet
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"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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The Kite Runner
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