Example sentences for: pallid

How can you use “pallid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The art direction, costume design, and photography are top-notch: "It's the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ). Johnny Depp, playing Ichabod Crane as an effete Manhattan detective sent to get to the bottom of a rash of beheadings, shines (or more accurately, is appropriately pallid).

  • I love her mocking the French ("I really dislike the pallid, watery-eyed, churchly old-whore sentimentality of their limpid pastoral novels").

  • On the evidence of The Replacement Killers , they seem bent on turning the most galvanic figure of Hong Kong action cinema into a pallid family man--domesticating him in all senses.

  • Bradley has been looking a bit pallid lately, and the fact that he's just getting around to revealing the problem raises suspicions that he is being less than fully candid about it.

  • Early rock co-existed with pallid pop music.


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