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    sallow example sentences

    sallow


    1. We held hands, feeling the warmth of skin on skin, close enough to taste each other’s sallow, indoor odour, and then we broke out into peels of ringing laughter


    2. that a sallow skinned thing crawled


    3. before the sallow days of leaf litter fall


    4. and sallow skin that bids farewell poor innocence,


    5. He raised a sallow


    6. Jock hates the possibility that there might be a connection between his own early life and that of the boy dealer, but nevertheless he has to admit to a sneaking regard for the sallow skin sitting in the chair opposite Maggie’s desk


    7. The look across his sallow face told her that he had a


    8. Marching on we passed other groups old men and children and women dressed all in black looking like a coven of ravens watching us as we went by they had pinched and sallow faces and looked like they had the weight of the world on their shoulders


    9. I took in everything from her prematurely grey hair to the sallow skin and pinched face whose complexion seemed to be waxy and then her dead brown eyes that looked out without any life in them


    10. ” Tears streamed down her sallow cheeks

    11. His skin was pale and sallow, eyes wide and staring


    12. The athletic build, cropped hair, sallow skin and cold stare, told Holland that this was a man you’d regret upsetting


    13. Hunter’s sallow features always brought memories of undertakers and funerals to his mind, and right now he was fervently praying that particular thought wasn’t some kind of premonition


    14. His sallow skin was darkened around eyes so black that they failed to reflect the torch light


    15. His complexion was sallow


    16. Head cocked to one side, staring in supplication at Brendan’s sallow face, he leaned in to try to comprehend anything Brendan said


    17. some looked as if they were near death, their skin sallow and thin


    18. I was also worried by a sallow fellow in a smart suit who appeared to be following me around


    19. They called at the house the next day and were greeted by a petite sallow skinned woman who looked older than her years


    20. Kirke's face with its sallow skin, sunken cheeks and watery eyes stared back with defiance and stubbornness

    21. Close up, Travis saw that the pale skin which appeared smooth from a distance was sallow and wrinkled


    22. In the centre of the room, which is decorated in a sallow complexion, stands a double bed that’s almost totally covered by teddy bears I’ve collected during my entire life


    23. He was young, sallow, with dark and melancholy eyes which would not have startled her so much if she had known the gypsies, and a dreamy air that to any woman with a heart less rigid would have been enough to make her understand her daughter’s motives


    24. So when her shock-headed husband in sallow complexion went a long way to


    25. sheveled hair and his face was sallow, apparently he was totally exhaust-


    26. went pale and sallow; his eyes reflected deep pain and consternation


    27. His sallow face and shallow breathing would


    28. A teenaged, sallow faced security guard was standing close by to


    29. Her hair was iron-grey and her skin sallow, but she took my hand firmly and smiled, putting me at ease


    30. at Molly, Sam’s face appeared sallow

    31. Her face was a sickly grey, her skin sallow and glistening with sweat


    32. The skin is coarse and often sallow, with large open pores, spots, blackheads, and acne are likely, as the sebaceous glands are over-productive, but oily skin stays looking young longer than any other types


    33. seamed and sallow, and the eyes held an expression which


    34. Red blotches on her cheeks and chin marked her otherwise sallow skin and she seemed to have far more teeth than could fit in her small mouth


    35. Her dress is torn, her ankles are bleeding, her shoes are all but gone and her hair is in disarray—her skin is sallow, like pruned flesh when left under water too long, and her eyes are screaming for help


    36. He was thin, in a wiry way, possessing no muscle and very little fat; his skin was pale bordering on almost yellow and sallow


    37. He could sense ridicule from him as his sallow face gave Denver a slanted look and his lips twisted up into a snake like smile


    38. His head twirled around to look at Rancor, who merely gazed back with a slight grimace upon his sallow face


    39. This turned the British people into weakened, pale, fat, sallow complexioned idiots: who became addicted to the worst non-nutritious junk, and drug foods they could fill their empty lives and souls and bellies with


    40. His face was sallow

    41. A hood on the cloak covered her face, but Scott could still see her lips, gleaming with an arterial red in the sallow light


    42. As early as six o'clock in the morning, sallow faces peeping through its barred windows had descried other faces within, bending over measures of wine


    43. A strange thing--when you come to think of it--this love of Greek, flourishing in such obscurity, distorted, discouraged, yet leaping out, all of a sudden, especially on leaving crowded rooms, or after a surfeit of print, or when the moon floats among the waves of the hills, or in hollow, sallow, fruitless London days, like a specific; a clean blade; always a miracle


    44. Only his drooping bloodhound eyes and his heavy sallow cheeks expressed his melancholy tolerance, his conviction that though forced to live with circumspection and deliberation he could never possibly achieve any of those objects which, as he knew, are the only ones worth pursuing


    45. The bachelor, though he was called Samson, was of no great bodily size, but he was a very great wag; he was of a sallow complexion, but very sharp-witted, somewhere about four-and-twenty years of age, with a round face, a flat nose, and a large mouth, all indications of a mischievous disposition and a love of fun and jokes; and of this he gave a sample as soon as he saw Don Quixote, by falling on his knees before him and saying, "Let me kiss your mightiness's hand, Senor Don Quixote of La Mancha, for, by the habit of St


    46. Then was seen stepping down from the carriage a gentleman in a short coat with silver braiding, with bald brow, and wearing a tuft of hair at the back of his head, of a sallow complexion and the most benign appearance


    47. of my husband changed; his complexion became sallow, and all the charms of


    48. ] She could hardly support herself, her complexion was sallow,


    49. Her complexion was sallow; and her features small, without beauty, and naturally without expression; but a lucky contraction of the brow had rescued her countenance from the disgrace of insipidity, by giving it the strong characters of pride and ill nature


    50. He was a thin, sallow man with a red nose, quick, staccato, and smartly but stiffly dressed





























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    Synonyms for "sallow"

    sallow sickly pallid light fair milky white flaxen blond

    "sallow" definitions

    any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal


    cause to become sallow


    unhealthy looking