Sample Sentences for
sallow
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sallow as in:  a sallow complexion

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    His face was sallow under the light.  (source)
    sallow = an unhealthy pale of yellowish complexion
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    And with that, time moves ever onwards—ALBUS's eyes become darker, his face grows more sallow.†  (source)
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    Chang Sacha, the market baker, was barely recognizable with her swollen eyelids and sallow skin.†  (source)
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    On a bench sits a goitrous and sallow German sergeant major with shadows carved under his eyes.†  (source)
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    His skin, in spite of being sunburned a deep brown, has a parched sallowness.†  (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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    Her face was sallower, and there was a long scar, partly hidden by the hair, across her forehead and temple; but that was not the change.†  (source)
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    Vice ran freely in and out certain of the doors in the neighbourhood; recklessness dwelt under the roof with the crooked chimney; shame in some bow-windows; theft (in times of privation) in the thatched and mud-walled houses by the sallows.†  (source)
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    That explained why the face I called up was not pretty—not the kind of face you would expect to find on Judge Irwin's wife—but a sallowish, thin face, not even young, with only the big dark eyes to recommend it.†  (source)
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    It was quite unaccountable that Mrs. Deane, the thinnest and sallowest of all the Miss Dodsons, should have had this child, who might have been taken for Mrs. Tulliver's any day.†  (source)
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    I stared at the two strange faces across the booth, sallow in the artificial lights.†  (source)
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    Also, I felt that underneath that healthy suntan there lingered the sallowness of a body not wholly rescued from a terrible crisis.†  (source)
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    There was the same man: his dark face rather sallower and more composed, his frame a stone or two heavier, perhaps, and no other difference.†  (source)
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    Some hammer helmets for the fighting field; Some twine young sallows to support the shield; The croslet some, and some the cuishes mold, With silver plated, and with ductile gold.†  (source)
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