washed-out

Example Sentences

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Frances was trying to draw her out, but Anna May only answered with a washed-out half smile.

From Literature

Wearing a washed-out prison uniform and sporting a short grey beard, Masud listened as the hearing before judge Dabney L. Friedrich got under way at the District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday.

From BBC

I smiled and bounced heartily on the railcar bench, fluffing up my washed-out, red-checkered dress.

From Literature

In Jamaica, the impact was most severe in the southwestern parish of St Elizabeth, where knee-deep mud and washed-out bridges left towns such as Black River cut off.

From BBC

It’s funny how just the grainy, washed-out look of videotape can conjure so much melancholy.

From Salon