pale
adjective
(of a person or a person's skin)
palely
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a word derived from
pale.
Example Sentences
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Overseeing everything from above, like an inescapable eye, is a palely glowing clock.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2018
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
With the quilt pulled up around her she found herself looking with quick apprehension at the window, shining palely in the darkness, and then at the door.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
