How to Use pallid in a Sentence

pallid

adjective
  • The movie is a pallid version of the classic novel.
  • If the melon is too pallid or splotchy in parts, keep looking.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Perhaps he was locked in a dark room somewhere, pallid with shock.
    — Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 26 Apr. 2017
  • The smoke plume turned the skies above the town a putrid, pallid orange.
    — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Those two pallid politicians sat on either side of him and bickered while Jesse sat silent.
    — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Faux protein has evolved past bean-heavy veggie patties and pallid tofu dogs.
    — Esquire Editors, Esquire, 30 Jan. 2018
  • And try to summon, from our pallid, hazy situation, vistas of the sort that draw so sweet and pure a gaze.
    — David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The studios, faced with a pallid fall season, were feeling immense pressure as well.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The skin of his outstretched arms is crinkled and pallid, his muscles atrophied.
    — Stephen O’Connor, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The skin of his outstretched arms is crinkled and pallid, his muscles atrophied.
    — Stephen O’Connor, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • The camera gets right up close to Tom Cruise, whose never-more-perfect skin looks pallid.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 21 June 2022
  • Others, their pallid skin shades of blue and gray, were still—save for their skeletal rib cages silently rising and falling.
    — Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Raging fires and rising seas will not respond to pallid proclamations.
    — The Editors, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The tomatoes were pallid and useless except for their pepper adornment.
    — Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2019
  • Read all about his technique for giving even the most pallid watermelon a flavor boost.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2022
  • Out of the bloodstains shone a pair of bright blue eyes, and a heart was beating under the pallid skin that looked several sizes too big.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Colors such as pallid rose and chartreuse are inflected with gold, and prints are inspired by nature.
    — Kavita Daswani, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The skin is colored in with regular makeup to make a pallid complexion.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2017
  • Does that mean that the future of the galaxy belongs to pallid, hyper-aggressive lizards?
    — Seth Shostak, NBC News, 22 May 2017
  • Thanks to the light reflecting off our new wall color, my pale Irish skin was no longer a dewy porcelain but sickly and pallid.
    — House Beautiful, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Under a pallid, shrunken sun Triton vents plumes of gas into the sky, and wisps of cloud fall as nitrogen snow.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 12 Mar. 2019
  • Vampirism, in this trio of movies, looks like a pallid, pointy brunette who likes to wander the streets of Manhattan while wearing black.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The first payroll report after the end of the government shutdown painted a pallid picture of the jobs market.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
  • At the center, stretched out in a diagonal, taut between death and life, is the pallid, almost greenish body of Lazarus.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
  • In other words, our complexion is looking pallid, our skin is dry, and our overall appearance is just a little blah at the moment.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Built of marble as pale as moonlight, its rows of pallid stone yield a stunning view of the Parthenon on the nearby Acropolis.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 16 May 2017
  • Robert Vaughn is a particularly pallid villain, and the movie’s case against computers, uh, hasn’t aged too well.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025
  • But those black buildings are in Scandinavia or the Netherlands, far from my pallid neighborhood.
    — Hayley Krischer, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Yet senior test kitchen editor Jesse Szewczyk recently took one of those pallid lumps and coaxed utter brilliance from it.
    — Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Similarly, it was called the white plague or white death – due to anemia from the disease, with people appearing pallid or chalky – leading to near-certain death.
    — Karen Dobos, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2025

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