Sentence Examples
In the dried skin, the maxilla is blackish except for the tip, which is paler. |
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The color darkens his eyes just slightly without causing him to look any paler. |
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In winter, cattle eat fodder which lacks the pigment and dairy products are naturally paler. |
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Such usual suspects as tuna and paler yellowtail were good, as was a tenderly cooked shrimp. |
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Vibrant orange marigolds sit quite comfortably close to the paler blue cornflower. |
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Thursday brightened into an overcast, showery day with belts of dark and paler grey cloud scudding across the sky. |
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And often the tail fluke of a whale or the back fin of a dolphin will show as a dark patch against the paler surface of the sea. |
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The floor was carpeted in a cool blue, the walls painted a paler version of the same colour. |
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Throughout the year, curling strips of the cinnamon-red outer bark peel off to reveal the paler young bark beneath. |
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But this time round, their journey was far from calm and saw some sunburned faces turn rapidly into paler shades of green. |
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She was clearly an outlander here, her skin a paler shade than the people of this southern kingdom. |
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Just walking to and from the chow hall has allowed the sun to bronze all of the paler arms and faces. |
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Only St-Joseph and that paler shadow Crozes-Hermitage can sensibly be broached within their first five years. |
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The yet untanned autumn faces of the foreigners grew paler as they heard glass shattering. |
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These paler ones, sometimes called Japanese or Cuban sweet potatoes or boniatos, are excellent in stews and stir-fries. |
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Many have paler underparts than upperparts and barred underwing and tail feathers, a patterning that may make them less visible to prey. |
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They mounted the stairs behind Eric and Jane, and James noticed that Scarlett was getting paler by the minute. |
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On Mondays her hair is crumpled and unbrushed, she is slumped in her seat, and she looks paler than a corpse in a coffin. |
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With all the blipping and beeping machines hooked into him, he looked smaller, paler, and frailer than I'd ever seen him before. |
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Her face turns paler, she stutters a bit and then finally she leaves with her stupid, moronic girlfriends. |
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He looked paler and sweatier than usual, and one leg seemed to trouble him a bit. |
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Relatively large, the leaves are a dull light green with a paler underside during growing season. |
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Her hair was shining golden white and she was pale, paler than Josh and John. |
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The plumage nearly lacks gray or rufescent tones, and the undertail coverts have much paler bases that contrast less with the tips. |
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Both girls laughed over this, but Margaret's face seemed to grow paler by the minute. |
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The flowers are large and wallflower red on the outside, the inner colour being soft orange flushed with red towards the tip, fading to a paler, softer throat. |
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Sitting next to Nancy was a paler, washed-out version of Taylor. |
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He nodded and opened his mouth, but before he could utter a word, he became even paler, if possible and rushed out into the bathroom where I heard him retching his guts out. |
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The putamen of the lentiform nucleus has been removed to expose the more medially situated globus pallidus, which is so named because it is paler than the putamen. |
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The paler, often orange salmonberry, R. spectabilis, is named not because of its colour but because American Indians in the north-west often ate it with salmon roe. |
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These bands were separated by thin lines of much paler paint. |
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She looked paler than ever, but there was a thin smile on her face. |
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He looked like a fish on water, not to mention ten shades paler. |
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The female is paler and lacks the grey crown, white cheeks, black bib and eye stripe and chestnut brown nape, but has a straw coloured stripe behind the eye. |
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If your windows are cloaked in dark, heavy curtains consider investing in paler more diffuse material in voile, set in casual drifts behind tie-backs. |
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The Lincoln's Sparrow is a small, streaky sparrow, similar in appearance to the Song Sparrow, but smaller and paler than the dark Song Sparrows seen in Washington. |
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His blond hair with its strange, upwards-aiming parting, accents his extremely pale skin, which has the appearance of being even paler than usual. |
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Her waist-length black coat was hanging off her narrow shoulders and her face was made all the paler by the cream-coloured polo neck which she was wearing underneath. |
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Her skin had taken on a translucent shimmer, skin even paler than before. |
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By the removal of the cruor the lymph becomes gradually paler. |
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Most are free of matrix, although some of the paler green or greenish-yellow groups are on gossan and are associated with cream to bluish cerussite. |
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The more garishly grisly the story becomes, the paler its credibility. |
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Often they were described as paler and sadder versions of the person they had been while alive, and dressed in tattered gray rags. |
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They are slightly paler than those in Britain and the females have yellower plumage with more finely barred underparts. |
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The upper wings have pale primary patches, and the primary flight feathers are also paler when viewed from below. |
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She was looking even paler, more post-operative, as it were, than she had on waking. |
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The female also develops spots, but not on the belly, which is paler than those of the males, and they are generally smaller. |
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This variation follows predictable patterns, with birds at higher latitudes being larger and those in arid areas being paler. |
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Not intimidatingly beautiful, thus not sent to make us feel cacky about ourselves, she's paler than a white-washed wall and proud of it. |
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And there are finally whisperings that the 5-foot-10 paler sister may not have the same genetic makeup as the 5-2 and 5-0 swarthier ones. |
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In the species' southern range, the coat remains brown, but is denser and sometimes paler than in summer. |
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Black flicky eyeliner, big backcombed hair and paler than pale lips are what you need, so here's how to achieve a modern take on the retro trend. |
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Black flicky eyeliner, big backcombed hair and paler than pale lips are what you need so here's how to achieve a modern take on the retro trend. |
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The deep pink flowers of Leptospermum scoparium alongside the paler pink, fluffy Ptilotus and vibrant red kangaroo paws. |
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The bills of young birds are light yellow to straw, paler than the female's bill. |
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Both sexes have orange bellies, although paler in females, which is covered in rounded black spots. |
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The juvenile is similar to the adult, but with duller and greener upperparts and paler underparts. |
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The dark spots may also have paler radiating lines or streaks within them. |
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Second year birds have paler bellies and third year birds are darker. |
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In most species the dorsolateral aerophore line is conspicuous throughout the length of the stipe, generally being somewhat paler in colour than the surrounding tissue. |
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The Greenland halibut can swim in a vertical position and both sides of its body are a speckled brown colour, but the left side is rather paler than the right. |
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The lower valve on which the scallop rests on the bottom has a paler color, is more convex, and also differs from the upper in having a byssal notch. |
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By their first breeding season, young birds generally are indistinguishable from other adults, though they may still be paler during their first year. |
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The wood cladding is coated with light wood tar, which makes it darker than natural and so offsets the paler columns and radiating beams of the canopy. |
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Tint 'light 30' has a slight orangeness to it, even though it's one of the paler tones, but it's completely odourless which makes a pleasant change from other foundations. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
The four pyriform eggs are pale buff, tinged with olive, blotched and spotted with dark brown and paler brown. |
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It is a species of lake, having a considerable proportion of aluminous base, to which its paler tint is due. |
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Similar to the last but with the superciliary line paler and the yellow reduced to a spot on the lores. |
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The victim gradually became paler and limper, until Maskull held a corpse in his arms. |
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She was looking at Miss toner and if she had been pale before, she was paler now. |
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His hair and brows and lashes were paler than straw, and his long lank figure was without either distinction or muscularity. |
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The gills are narrow and crowded, decurrent, considerably paler than the cap. |
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In the dichroscope the ruby shows two images, one square of a violet red, the second square being a truer and a paler red. |
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Its habitat, its reddish or alutaceous cap, and its paler gills will clearly identify the species. |
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The female is paler and the ocelli are larger and more distinct than in charon. |
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The candles had grown paler, and the noises of the street were drowned in the music of the organs. |
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All specimens of convexus are paler, the skulls are more convex dorsally and narrower, with less ridging and angularity. |
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A very similar but slightly paler variety than the barred owl, and with the toes bare, as in alleni. |
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Three sides of Urw are solid rock, not the red rock of BNA but one paler in colour. |
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The cuticle is smoky olive to fuliginous, darker when young, becoming paler as the pileus expands, but always darker on the umbo. |
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The color of the gills is orange to cadmium orange, or sometimes paler, cadmium yellow or deep chrome. |
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The flowers last a long time in water, gradually becoming paler in color and papery in texture. |
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In some specimens the dorsum between the paravertebral stripes is still paler brown. |
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As the blood of Acis crept in a stream from under the rock it grew paler and paler until it turned into water. |
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By increasing the proportion of pearl ash the red may be made still paler, in which case make the alum water stronger. |
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Becoming plane, vermillion-red, externally paler, hispid towards the margin with straight black hairs. |
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This species is similar to the pigeon hawk, but is paler both above and below, and the tail bars are more numerous and white. |
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His face was paler than usual, while he was hollow-eyed, as if from want of sleep. |
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Female rather paler, throat and breast washed with ochraceous, and outer primaries not acuminated. |
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The most durable of the red sandstones are those having a paler or grayer hue, like those of Woolton, Everton, and runcorn. |
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Each flower head is flat with a central group of small, vivid fertile flowers surrounded by larger, sterile blooms of a paler shade. |
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The lady in black, creeping behind them, looked a trifle paler and more jaded than usual. |
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The hind-wings are dull brownish-grey, with the cilia paler. |
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Below, greenish buff paler and yellower on abdomen and crissum. |
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There stood the fair Evangeline, a little paler than the day before, but otherwise exhibiting no traces of the accident which had befallen her. |
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As he did not answer but grew still paler, she looked at him fixedly. |
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He had become yet paler, and his keen intelligent eyes were flaming. |
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Jane looked a little paler than usual, but more sedate than Elizabeth had expected. |
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Miss Grafton returned to her own apartments, paler than death. |
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He was paler, slimmer and altogether more effective than before. |
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This variety is paler than the song sparrow but darker than fallax. |
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His accomplice has paler skin and is 5ft tall with ginger hair and a stockier build. |
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She grew a shade paler, and leaned for a moment against the rail of the paddock in which they were lounging. |
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He himself, I thought, looked somewhat paler and more stern than I was used to. |
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They gibber and grow fiercer, paler, uglier, mad distortions of humanity at last, and I wake, cold and wretched, in the darkness of the night. |
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Her younger sister was like her shortened shadow, a little greyer, paler, and more insignificant. |
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It was a question which was the paler, the man or the woman. |
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The stem is nearly equal, firm, even, paler than the pileus. |
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The deputy wet his lips, and his face grew a shade 115 paler. |
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The child is getting thinner and paler, now the sharp weather is coming. |
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Velvets don't translate photographically in paler shades but can look luscious in jewel colours or black. |
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Her colorless face, with its double chin, looked out from under a round plaited cap, which made her look paler than she really was. |
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Crown black, mottled with white and mantle paler in postnuptial plumage. |
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At the same time Mercedes reappeared, paler than before, but with that imperturbable expression of countenance which she sometimes wore. |
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Differs from chalcopyrite by paler color and much greater hardness. |
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Like mice we scampered past the great schoolroom, with its gable snipping a paler sky than ever, and the shadows melting even in the colonnade underneath. |
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