pallid

How To Use pallid In A Sentence

• We looked limp and pallid and shambolic by comparison.
• He mistakenly characterizes spirituality as a pallid Platonic flight from the world or some kind of interiorized religious stirrings.
• a clearly defined _spirillum_, the _Treponema pallida_ of Schaudinn. Preventable Diseases
• As such, he was utterly made for the job, as his combination of physical clumsiness, verbal ineptitude and unwaveringly glaikit expression must have made even the most gauche and pallid code-cruncher feel like a cocksure sophisticate. Be My Enemy
• I could see, even in the dim light of my fading lamp, that his skin was pasty and pallid, his eyes dark and cloudy.
• The reclusive teenager was determined to tan his pallid body, but did not want to expose his feeble frame to others.
• Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pallidum.
• From the corner of his mouth came a slow, thin trickle of bright red, dripping slowly down his pallid face like rain down a windowpane.
• Shelley saw how, as the sun faded among the trees just as we would see it now: ‘pallid evening twines its beaming hair in duskier braids around the languid eyes of day: silence and twilight, unbeloved of men, creep hand in hand’.
• Only down the side of this trickled moisture which had stained the stone with encrusta - tions and given life to some strange and ominous-looking growths pallidly yellow and dankly gray in the globe light. Flight in Yiktor