Sample Sentences for
pallid
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    On either side stand people, dark, calling out the numbers of the brigades, the battalions. And at each call a little group separates itself off, a small handful of dirty, pallid soldiers, a dreadfully small handful, and a dreadfully small remnant.  (source)
    pallid = lacking healthy skin color
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    She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue.  (source)
    pallid = abnormally pale (lacking healthy skin color)
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    And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;  (source)
    pallid = pale and/or lacking liveliness
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    His complexion was yellow and pallid, and black and red splotches stippled his neck.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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    While this pallidness was burning aloft, few words were heard from the enchanted crew; who in one thick cluster stood on the forecastle, all their eyes gleaming in that pale phosphorescence, like a far away constellation of stars.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Dany could smell the stench of Illyrio's pallid flesh through his heavy perfumes.†  (source)
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    Out at the window a florid moon was peering over dark roofs, and in the distance the waters of a river glimmered pallidly.†  (source)
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    The tableau all waned at last with the pallidness aloft; and once more the Pequod and every soul on her decks were wrapped in a pall.†  (source)
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    Seven weeks in prison had left her pallid-faced, but as radiantly Nollie as ever.†  (source)
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    Conway responded, and observed an old or elderly Chinese, gray-haired, clean-shaven, and rather pallidly decorative in a silk embroidered gown.†  (source)
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    The man's large, pallid face went slack.†  (source)
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    He and Roger and Ad Worx itself were apt to be numbered among the fatalities no matter what they did; he could read it on Roger's round face, which had not looked so pallidly serious since he and Althea had lost their boy, Timothy, to the crib-death syndrome when the infant was only nine days old.†  (source)
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