Example sentences for: pallid

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

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

  • 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.

  • To make certain that the viewer catches the negative ad's drift, double-exposed over the scene is a shot of a pallid, black-and-white Dole and a grimacing Gingrich.

  • Only then could Chanel daringly use dull black textiles, until then associated with widows' weeds and maids' uniforms, for plain but costly little dresses that made the contrived, bright, or pallid garb of the belle époque look foolish.

  • 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).


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