Example Sentences

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Like the prickling atmosphere of dread that blanketed the original and is only pallidly reproduced here.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2022

There’s her brother-in-law, the pallidly handsome Charlie, an injured ex-dancer — who was once the Nutcracker Prince — and her mother’s former protege, for whom Marie has problematic feelings.

From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2021

I'm confronted with the face that years ago the Village Voice described as the "pallidly beautiful embodiment of pure evil".

From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2013

Pawing pallidly at their instruments, muttering doggerel into their collars, they sound like nothing so much as that first, staggeringly inept band you formed for a giggle with your schoolmates.

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2010

Bill, Robert, Harold, Henry; the choir boy who had fainted sat up against a palm trunk, smiled pallidly at Ralph and said that his name was Simon.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding