Sample Sentences for
ashen
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ashen as in:  ashen face

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    Ron was holding up an ashen-faced Seamus, apologizing for whatever his broken wand had done;  (source)
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    "Yes'm," Stacey said, his face strangely ashen, his eyes on Papa.  (source)
    ashen = pale
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    She says it like she expects him to relent, but her wide eyes and ashen face suggest otherwise.  (source)
    ashen = very pale
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    It was small and cavelike—dark, moist, frigid, with ashen walls and cold tiles the color of lead.  (source)
    ashen = light-gray (like the color of ashes)
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    When he returned a few days later he was ashen.  (source)
    ashen = very pale
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    There was a band of sunlight on the bed between us, and, for just a moment, the ashen gray face looking at me from the other side of it was a dead ringer for Hassan's,  (source)
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    As she had spoken, I watched the Professor's face, and saw it turn ashen gray.  (source)
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    Her eyes were half-lidded, and her pretty olive complexion was ashen.†  (source)
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    As she held the phone to her ear, she stood motionless and silent and her face grew ashen and drawn.†  (source)
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    From where I sit on the field, he's a bizarre specter, so frail and ashen.†  (source)
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    When she saw me approaching the group, her face went "ashen."†  (source)
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    Sacha's complexion was ashen but for the bruised blotches on her jaw.†  (source)
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    His eyes lit up, a smile, like a grimace, illuminated his ashen face.†  (source)
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There were days when the ashen overcast thinned and now the standing trees along the road made the faintest of shadows over the snow.  (source)
ashen = grayish in color
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