Example Sentences

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“Perched palely on a tall stool, rocking dark sunglasses or his signature eye patch,” the New York Times review read, the gangly club kingpin “remains largely an enigma.”

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2020

The narrator observes everything, meets all of the novel’s characters at one moment or another, but is palely anonymous, and often disappears altogether as we inhabit the minds of other characters, in standard third-person narration.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016

In the film, out this month, Friend plays a professional assassin who is perfectly, palely bald.

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2015

"This version is palely faithful to the original without any of its seditious zest."

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2012

The early light came filtering palely through the wood, making the tree trunks like watered silk.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill