Examples of 'sallow' in a sentence
Meaning of "sallow"
sallow (adjective): Describes a complexion or skin tone that is dull, yellowish, or sickly in appearance. It is used to characterize a person's complexion as lacking healthy color or vitality
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- Yellowish.
- Of a sickly pale colour.
- Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.
- Having skin (especially on the face) of a sickly pale colour.
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And you look old and sallow.
She was sallow and blond with white skin.
And it makes you look a little sallow.
You look so sallow and weak.
Sallow and his form wasted.
Her face is all sallow now.
His face is sallow in the morning after his nightmares.
Shading half of her sallow face.
The sallow cultivator was the only one he could target.
It makes me sallow and liverish.
You look rather sallow.
You are so sallow and pale.
Pregnant women are sallow.
Sallow was very young.
Or that your skin looks sallow when you are anxious.
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My complexion turned sallow.
He has a sallow face.
White or slightly sallow.
The sallow and tired appearance of ageing is in part due to this process.
It does have that sallow tint.
A tall man with a sallow complexion walked into the room and sat down next to Tom.
Your cheeks are sallow.
Sallow purple And then approaching death.
He looks sallow now.
I apologize if I look tired if my eyes are red if my complexion is sallow.
Smoking A cause of its appearance and sallow skin is a result of cigarette smoke.
A sallow is a shrubby willow OED.
Christ himself is sallow.
A thin and sallow He Yun came walking into the room.
What a deal of brine hath washed thy sallow cheek for Rosaline.
He was of sallow complexion, and from early youth he had led a wild life.
I have lost my memory last night I am so wan and sallow.
Without this, he will look sallow and unhealthy.
Since he met you, he has become gaunt and sallow.
If you go with this sallow face, they will not even look at you.
They stopped Sallow.
Wrinkled face, sallow eyes and his darn coughing kept me up all night.
Though I take solace knowing that My skin is sallow and my wit squandered.
It's also great in the winter when your complexion tends to be a bit sallow.
He suffered hair loss, and had sallow skin in various stages of decomposition.
He has a greedy mouth, a hooked nose, liquid green eyes and a sallow complexion.
If she were not so sallow and had a nicer expression, her features are rather good.
Make it a tall, heavyset male with a sallow complexion.
The sallow skin cast and the collapsed sack-like appearance of the body.
The color's all wrong for your sallow complexion.
The professor 's sallow features shone with the strange enthusiasm that had transformed Aunt Gertrude 's.
It's only been a day and your face has already become this sallow.
Both supporters wore collars made of sallow twigs, another reference to the town 's name.
A poor cleaning quality is often responsible, among other causative factors, for a sallow complexion.
Hath washed thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!
