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    Use "pale" in a sentence

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    1. He picks up the pale, doll-headed child and holds the babe to his chest


    2. The pale yellow sun reflected off the morning fog


    3. Walls are pale lime, the floor has square, plastic white tile


    4. Theo pictured a round, pale friendly face at the other end


    5. John, on the other hand, is looking a bit pale


    6. Just once he had directly approached her, but he had crashed and burned as her pale green eyes watched him and waited to be charmed


    7. Johnny saw there his own reflection, pale and bloodless


    8. Glenelle noticed he was longer and thinner than the bartender, and more of a pale blue


    9. Mum, she was horribly pale and shivery, but I couldn’t make her change her mind


    10. sight they grew pale

    11. brief reflection from within the hood, a pale white howling light cast back at her from


    12. McManus was pale


    13. pale white hide, which was soiled and bruised, shone ghost white in the thin reeds of


    14. "Forget it!" When he looked at the Chief through the pale, bluish alien blood frozen to her visor, he saw her face turn white in an instant


    15. Without understanding any of it, I suddenly felt that I might one day see the sunlight and not be ashamed of pale skin


    16. Their pale blue constellation flew across the terminus again and held station there, waiting for the breaching ship and the junks


    17. My heart thumped against the thin, pale skin that barely seemed to cover my ribs


    18. Her skin was quite dark but her eyes were pale blue


    19. She caught a brief reflection from within the hood, a pale white howling light cast back at her from his eyes, a reflection of the moon and his ice cold soul


    20. Clutching it, she watched as a pale and patently edgy JJ and an absurdly protective Angie clambered into the kaht, stowing their bags safely under the seat; she watched until they disappeared

    21. His pale white hide, which was soiled and bruised, shone ghost white in the thin reeds of morning


    22. Joris had bought her five years ago … she’d fallen in love on sight with the beautiful gg, with her white blond mane and tail setting off the pale tan colour of her coat


    23. Waking with the bare reality of pale skin


    24. A fraction of a second later Luray's was also grabbed by a pale tentacle and disappeared beneath the water


    25. join with me was a thing beyond the milk pale,


    26. reflecting the pale burst of lunatic light, still and frozen


    27. on white cotton, beyond the pale,


    28. The sky is winter pale with a light, chill breeze cutting


    29. Behind the busiest street, I walked romantic corridors between dilapidated wood and mud houses with charming little kitchens, fire-places, wood storage rooms, and some with courtyards and even pebble mosaic designs laid in the ground beneath knotty gnarled old trees that still flowered bright crimson and pale blue


    30. under the high steeple dusk of a pale moon

    31. They were different colors, very pale but you could see there were blue, green and red hues


    32. Her pale skin, the shape of her shoulders,


    33. Pale of face but in control, she hurries over to me, hugging me frantically as soon as I set foot on the ground


    34. From Brazil comes a black honey, from Africa a clear, pale green, and from Texas comes one of the most unique honeys in the world, the remarkable guajillo honey which is crystal white with a pearly reflection like new milk


    35. As for the kidnapper, that devious impresario, it is said that he appears briefly in cameo in every one of Archibald’s films, his pale head floating like a spectral balloon across a corner of some vast landscape, sneering and leering and mouthing the words, “I’ll get you back for this you old witch…I’ll be back…”


    36. Her behaviour was quite beyond the pale and he took all available legal steps to ensure that every one of her lines of income and credit were suspended with immediate effect


    37. Her face grew pale, contrasting with the dark and threatening sea


    38. The lips were pale and thin


    39. Duncan was pale, but appeared to be in good spirits, Rayne was aiding him


    40. Katie is dry-eyed and pale, but Abi is sobbing unrestrainedly with Ben doing his best to console her

    41. Katie is pale but composed; Abi is starting to cry


    42. It’s obvious that she’s been crying; ah bless! She looks quite pale


    43. We have a hiccough with one of the post room guys who goes very pale and refuses completely but, after I’d taken him on one side, I find out it is because he has a criminal record for some juvenile delinquency and is afraid that this will count against him


    44. Over the next few weeks the old woman grew steadily more pale


    45. I fall in love with a dress in pale green … full length and layered with an underskirt of a deep green silk with a sort of shimmery, floaty heavyweight pale green chiffon over the top with embroidered flowers round the edges


    46. started to blend into the pale corona of mist and smog smothering


    47. appears briefly in cameo in every one of Archibald’s films, his pale


    48. The fourth young man was too pale and she called him a


    49. behaviour was quite beyond the pale and he took all available legal


    50. I debated whether to place my hand on Govind's hand lying pale on the covers













































    1. Of course, even that paled in comparison to the speed of the Super Chip


    2. Even though we had our fans they paled in comparison to those


    3. Onk paled, while Drau'd cast his eyes to the table, burying them beneath his brow


    4. She wondered if she paled in beauty next to the courtesan


    5. Nerissa flushed with pride at her young cousin’s bravery, then paled with horror when she realized Aunt Melissa must be dead or gravely wounded


    6. Zarko paled at the shocking news and he couldn’t believe what he had just heard


    7. the photograph the Frenchman had paled at, however, the boy was looking directly at the camera


    8. The lower-ranking man paled, obviously not enthused about disturbing Hollowcrest


    9. The old man started in recognition, paled a bit, but managed to stammer that he’d never seen the man in the photograph before


    10. She adored the exercise, the feeling of control – but all of that paled before her love of Serenor and her feelings for Reese

    11. Little did I know that Chad was going through a crisis of self-contempt beside which my own paled


    12. I was never afraid to eat out by myself after that – everyday dining paled by comparison


    13. Howard-Smythe kind of swallowed and paled when he heard that


    14. “Well, that makes two, ‘Sacks,’ around here,” I told Howard-Smythe, who paled and wilted just a little


    15. Neva and Colette paled with


    16. The dryness in his mouth paled in comparison to the heaving sensation deep within his chest


    17. Orphenn paled, and became almost numb with his shocking thought, a


    18. Her face paled slightly as Lord Robert’s words sank in


    19. The lure of greater things for me paled in light of these attractions, but I did think I deserved more money, and I wanted Roy Sr


    20. The flashes around him paled to pink

    21. She had paled and


    22. He glanced over at Mary, who had visibly paled and took her hand in his


    23. "Who said I don't know her?" Aidan's eyes glinted, and I paled


    24. I slowly raised my head and paled when I saw Aidan's mother


    25. For once, Suresh felt that his crimes, though abominable, paled into insignificance compared to the panchayat’s collective cruelty


    26. Unrequited love? “She loves someone else?” he asked sympathetically and knew he was dead on when the boy paled


    27. The whippings Natala had received in the Shemite slave-markets paled to insignificance before this


    28. She paled and almost fainted


    29. He clapped his hands, and Octavia paled


    30. I shuddered and paled, sweating instantly

    31. The sailors who caught and understood the burden of that awesome shout paled and shrank back, staring in sudden fear at the wild figure on the bridge


    32. His complexion has paled, grey hairs and lines have started to appear, and he has developed a paunch


    33. There was something about being with Rosa that paled everything else into insignificance


    34. Her face paled and she glanced round to see if anyone had heard, but the departing guests were too far away and the howling wind had drowned her voice


    35. " His face paled to a sickly grey


    36. Kelly sighed, a quiet release of breath that sagged her shoulders and paled her skin


    37. Brenda paled as Suwanee said, “Is there any way we can get her out of here?”


    38. Max paled and said nothing


    39. The four pilots looked at their two friends still seated and paled


    40. Rachel paled when she read “Stonebridge” on the admiral’s name badge

    41. all this paled into nothing when Rory held the lantern up at one


    42. The victory paled, however, when she thought about how important bringing the enemy ship home intact could have been


    43. When the woman saw him, she paled and quickly regained her composure


    44. He clenched his fists and his face paled out and then reddened


    45. Chin"s face reddened and then paled


    46. The man visibly paled


    47. It had been early morning, whilst the stars were still out yet the night sky had paled to dawn, and it had seemed a logical thing to do at the time, according to the fuzzy, erratic logic of the toxified brain at such a time in the morning


    48. I noticed that Sharon’s face reddened and then paled


    49. hundred torches paled them


    50. His face paled












































    1. What on earth should I say? As I stand in the doorway, they look up and, seeing something in my face, Abi pales


    2. But even that pales in comparison with Italy


    3. The understanding of the physical universe pales in comparison


    4. 18 Pales set on an high place will never stand against the wind, so a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool cannot stand against any


    5. Her face pales as she clings to the seat


    6. But if you look around the board, you will see that there are tens of thousands of larger markers, and some that are hundreds of times larger, and that even the total worth of the wealthy few still pales beside the total worth of the prosperous multitudes


    7. Prudence’s face pales as if lit by too much sun


    8. search engine and everything else to drive traffic to their site, that pales in comparison to the


    9. Even your own highest concept of love on the human level pales in comparison to the Divine love


    10. Colin pales, helplessly looking over at Andy who’s still waiting at the other side of the portico

    11. don't actually end up using; however, the time wasted doing this pales into


    12. thirty- eight years of my life but that pales in comparison to getting


    13. Plastic pales and wooden broom handles scraped along the floor, then tomb silence


    14. My disaster, which resulted in some compensation to me, pales in comparison to his efforts


    15. That may be true, but the small increase in profits pales when weighed against the costs of cleanup incurred from Katrina


    16. After it’s in operation, no emissions are produced and the cost of energy pales in comparison to fossil fuel energy generation


    17. My feeling certainly pales in comparison to the families and friends of the soldiers, even if the latter 135


    18. Each of these options pales in comparison with mounting one covered with ice


    19. It pales compared to the WILL HE ? This is because people value the results more than the way


    20. After having lived through the losses I have suffered, losing a boyfriend pales in comparison

    21. “How interesting—I would have to agree with you, though, this young lady is much more desirable than Her Royal Highness Lucia, who pales in comparison to this beauty


    22. ‘And still it pales in comparison to you


    23. Phoebus rising pales the sky around her,


    24. Like those in the main chamber the colours had pales and the outlines were indistinct, but it was still possible to identify the subjects of the drawings


    25. Even if she were still around, she pales in comparison to you


    26. Don Juan, the hero of the play, while he pales somewhat before


    27. Aesop’s tale of the dog in the manger pales in comparison to the selfish self-destructiveness of the Romans


    28. them utterly pales into insignificance when it compared to an eternal life of torment in


    29. given to them utterly pales into insignificance when it compared to an eternal life of


    30. If the punishment of Hell awaited the souls that were in all those who drown in the flood, the punishment of drowning that was given to them utterly pales into insignificance when it compared to an eternal life of torment for the souls in Hell, yet absolutely nothing is said to them about eternal punishment after death

    31. Smack dab after, and I have to say, Trent so pales in comparison in the kissing department


    32. draw meaning from its memory, even if the memory is vague and pales with each


    33. If the punishment of Hell awaited all those who drown in the flood, the punishment given to them utterly pales into insignificance when it compared to an eternal life of torment in Hell, yet absolutely nothing is said about it


    34. Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,


    35. All of this, however, pales in comparison with one contribution in particular: the countless hours she spent sitting with me in her living room, telling me her father’s story, sometimes tearfully, sometimes joyfully, but always with unbounded pride and love


    36. He had just beheld, yonder, in the street, society, in the person of a freeholder and an elector, insulted and attacked by a creature who was outside all pales


    37. What to do with him now? His head lolls, his mouth opens, his eyelids loosen, his eyes stare, his skin pales


    38. Her face pales


    39. Those who don’t have physical contact with kidnappers may read and understand what the cause of the capture is, but that pales in comparison to the changes that are taking place in the minds of the victims who are being held hostage


    40. That’s a big number, yet it pales in comparison to the more than $8 trillion U

    41. 5 trillion—a substantial sum, but it pales in comparison with those of paper-based assets


    42. Maryanka with bowed head, striking the pales of the fences with a switch, was walking with rapid regular strides straight towards him


    1. Nicolas saw the look of horror on her face and looked up with her, his face paling beneath bright red scratches


    2. 37 And he said to the multitudes When you see the clouds appear from the west straightway you say that there comes rain; and so it comes to pass; And when the south wind blows you say that there will be heat; and it comes to pass; And when the evening is come you say It will be fair weather for the heaven has become red; And in the morning you say Today there will be severe weather from the redness Of the heaven is paling; you hypocrites you know to examine the face of the P


    3. Amanda and Irma had no trouble squirming under the broken paling of a fence and creeping through bushes to the roadside a few hundred metres away, but Violet was neither so flexible nor slim, and became wedged between two stout wooden planks


    4. 'Bêlit!' yelled Tito, paling


    5. They stood alone at the foot of the great wall, the paling stars overhead and the naked desert about them


    6. The noise followed Conan as he rode westward beneath the paling stars


    7. " He soaked in the shock that swept across their faces and his grin grew in sync with the paling of both of them


    8. A slight tremble passed through her body, moving the feathers on her hat, and a sudden paling of her face indicated her surprise at the revelation and its implications for her reluctance to answer the questions


    9. � Nancy�s chuckle stopped when she started stepping out of her bed, her face paling


    10. ” Knowlan watched the man’s hands knot upon his breeches, thick knuckles paling at the agony

    11. He stood across from Sophie, whose face was already paling with the hint of exhaustion


    12. I could never help it, even when you were married to Phil,’ Len said, his face paling


    13. It was a considerable paling but nevertheless it wasn't a fierce reaction


    14. Multar"s eyes went wide, his face visibly paling


    15. And again as I walk'd the beach under the paling stars of the morning


    16. There was no reply from the tourist, and when the wizard craned around he was horrified to see Twoflower looking up at the paling stars with an odd smile on his face


    17. "Hmm?" said Twoflower, still looking at the paling stars


    18. As the circumstances of my fall came back into my confused brain, I looked up in terror, expecting to see that dreadful head silhouetted against the paling sky


    19. “Do you think—” she began, paling as she thought of the mills and store


    20. Tess felt her cheek paling; Izz was right; of course there must be three

    21. Then quite a group of boys and girls—playmates of Tom's and Joe's—came by, and stood looking over the paling fence and talking in reverent tones of how Tom did so-and-so the last time they saw him, and how Joe said this and that small trifle (pregnant with awful prophecy, as they could easily see now!)—and each speaker pointed out the exact spot where the lost lads stood at the time, and then added something like "and I was a-standing just so—just as I am now, and as if you was him—I was as close as that—and he smiled, just this way—and then something seemed to go all over me, like—awful, you know—and I never thought what it meant, of course, but I can see now!"


    22. "Well, it's this way, Your Lordship—" began Casey, and stopped, paling


    23. ‘Well, it’s this way, your Lordship—’ began Casey, and stopped, paling


    24. Will eyed the door, the tents, the dark, the sky with new light paling it


    25. The stars were paling in the east


    26. "Keep a civil tongue in your head," cried the young man, his face paling in anger, at the insulting tone of the sailor


    27. Antipova to the now slightly paling Maria Alexandrovna


    28. By a lamp, which stood not far from the gate of my house, she stopped again, leaned back against the paling, and began to seek for something among her petticoats with awkward, frozen hands


    29. She leaned with her shoulder against the paling and vainly tried to light a match on it


    30. “Last all the way—eh, Miss Allys?” Adair said, leaning across Billy, who would have given back but that Allys clung to him in silence, her eyes glued to the glass, flushing and paling, her breath coming quicker even thus early in the race

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    Synonyms for "pale"

    pale picket blanch blench pallid wan sick dim faint feeble obscure colourless ashen bleached blanched doughy sickly anaemic bloodless cadaverous haggard deathlike stake enclosure barrier bounds fence limits paling whiten etiolate bleach

    "pale" definitions

    a wooden strip forming part of a fence


    turn pale, as if in fear


    very light colored; highly diluted with white


    (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble


    lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness


    abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress


    not full or rich