palls
- plural of pall.
Example Sentences
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The immediate damage is clear to see, with heavy palls of smoke hanging over the blackened and charred landscape, but a conservation expert said the long-term damage could take hundreds of years to repair.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
But the inconvenience of shopping in tropical heat palls compared with farmers afraid their harvests will be scant due to a lack of fertilizer.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2022
I read him all the time, and he never palls.
From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2021
“We had palls of smoke across our three major cities.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2021
Chicago seemed an unreal city whose mythical houses were built of slabs of black coal wreathed in palls of gray smoke, houses whose foundations were sinking slowly into the dank prairie.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
