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Example sentences for "paled"

Lexicographically close words:
palavers; palay; palays; pale; palea; paleface; palefaced; palefaces; palely; paleness
  1. Elnora's face paled a trifle, but she smiled bravely.

  2. She staggered with the blow, and across her face, paled with excitement, a red mark arose rapidly.

  3. As for the story of Frank Jenison's death, it was, according to the newspaper, "so strange that fiction paled by contrast.

  4. Her cheek went red on more than one occasion when her father's coarse humor offended her delicate sensibilities; she paled under the veiled, insinuating compliments of the other.

  5. He who in all things will have the pre-eminence, had indeed taken his rightful place in the heart of the dying, when even the strong earthly love that was "twisted with the strings of life" had paled before the love of him.

  6. A lurid crimson glow paled the stars in the southern sky.

  7. Sorrow paled her face, thinned her cheeks and lent another shadow, a mournful one, to her great eyes.

  8. The darkest hour came, and passed, and paled slowly to gray.

  9. The primroses had long yielded pride of place to the daffodils; these in turn had paled before the marsh marigolds, but the most glorious yellow in the picture was the Sulphur Butterfly.

  10. Even these beauties paled before his tail--a ribbon whose jet black centre shaded into violet, and whose edges were flushed with crimson.

  11. Which paled Thee once with sighs, by that strong death Which made Thee once unbreathing--from the wrack Themselves have called around them, call them back, Back to Thee in continuous aspiration!

  12. Oh, womanly she paled in fight, For one beloved's sake!

  13. She must have seen the truth in my face, for she paled and caught at my arm.

  14. A sleepless night had somewhat paled his cheek, but otherwise his look was as composed and reserved as usual.

  15. His face paled slightly as he looked at her and heard the brief summing up of the case.

  16. I know," she said, and her face flushed and paled a little, as the voices came closer.

  17. His face paled ever so little and he took a step backward, as he looked at her through narrowing eyes.

  18. Jesse gave a start and paled slightly at Judd's allusion to "the West Indian affair.

  19. When he was announced by telephone from the hotel desk Louise flushed and paled alternately.

  20. Lo, as he held the Lily to light him on, and the light of the Lily fell on them that were asleep, they paled and shrank, and were such as the death-chill maketh of us.

  21. Sinclair's face crimsoned at her words; then paled a little.

  22. Her face flushed crimson, and then paled with anger: "Mr. Carteret, that remark of yours was entirely uncalled for.

  23. She paled a trifle, but made no objection.

  24. She had listened to each word intently, and her face had flushed and paled alternately.

  25. Gradually her face paled until it was grey and drawn; tears of outraged pride and mortification flooded her eyes.

  26. She crimsoned from brow to chin, then paled again; her bosom heaved in tumult.

  27. She paled a little, and her bosom's heave was quickened.

  28. Horace's face paled and he grasped the arms of his chair.

  29. Fledra clenched her hands and paled in terror.

  30. Her cheeks paled at the sound, and she rested silent until presently summoned to the drawing-room.

  31. A strange horror paled her cheeks and widened her eyes.

  32. Now, while we thus wiled away the journey in such profitable conversation, the tide of the night had turned, the glory of the summer stars had paled and faded and departed from the lightening skies.

  33. She opened it curiously, and while reading it her cheeks paled and flushed as in the days of her youth.

  34. Memories which had long since paled in his soul, oppressed by suffering and disappointment, regained their vanished forms and colours, and for the first time in many months a smile hovered upon his lips.

  35. Barbara alternately flushed and paled as she listened to these words.

  36. The stars began to blink out of the blue, and the gold paled somewhat, and yet twilight lingered.

  37. Slowly the black, ragged forest-line seemed to grow blacker and lift; slowly the gray neck of park lightened under some invisible influence; slowly the stars paled and the sky filled over.

  38. The light that shone upon him with those words so blinded him that every spark of his anger paled and dwindled before it.

  39. There were illustrious personages present, but they paled beside her.

  40. Then her heart stopped beating, and her cheek paled with the thought of the bare possibility.

  41. The young man compressed his lips, dashed a hand across his eye, and flushed and paled alternately, like a girl confessing her love.

  42. Mabel's cheek now paled to the livid hue of death; then it flushed to the tint of crimson; and her whole frame shuddered.

  43. Fresh, and pure, and unsophisticated, it took captive the royal heart, and the memories of all former loves paled before the fervency of this new passion.

  44. Frank paled somewhat, but a firm look settled about his mouth, and he was unmoved.

  45. Frank's face paled a bit, but still his eyes met Marline's steadily.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    barred; beleaguered; beset; bound; cloistered; confined; cramped; enclosed; immured; imprisoned; incarcerated; jailed; penned; quarantined; restrained; walled