Sallow

Word SALLOW
Character 6
Hyphenation sal low
Pronunciations /ˈsæ.ləʊ/

Definitions and meanings of "Sallow"

What do we mean by sallow?

To become sallow.

To cause (someone or something) to become sallow.

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The word "sallow" in example sentences

Abner! "and he called his sallow-faced companion, who was already arguing salvation and temperance with some of the crew. ❋ Michener, James (1959)

He quotes also a poem that calls the sallow ‘the strength of bees’, and the hawthorn, ‘the barking of hounds’, and the gooseberry bush, ‘the sweetest of trees’, and the yew, ‘the oldest of trees’. ❋ W.B. Yeats (2000)

As I turned the handle I wondered idly what kind of sallow Turk or bulging-necked German we should find inside. ❋ Unknown (2005)

"You've been lookin 'kind of sallow these last days, so I've got a spoonful of molasses and sulphur, laid right by yo' plate." ❋ Unknown (1911)

"You've been lookin 'kind of sallow these last days, so I've got a spoonful of molasses and sulphur laid right by yo' plate." ❋ Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1909)

She was wearing a bluish print dress that brought out a kind of sallow warmth in her skin, and although it was nearly four o'clock in the afternoon, her sleeves were tucked up, as if for some domestic work, above the elbows, showing her rather slender but very shapely yellowish arms. ❋ Unknown (1906)

He was a tall handsome young man, slightly built, with the kind of sallow complexion that women admire, and I wondered at his preferring my company to that of the womankind on board, who were certainly very civil to him. ❋ Mary Cholmondeley (1892)

"The bark of what we call asp-wood, ma'am, which is a kind of sallow; they lay up great quantities of it in the autumn as a provision for winter, when they are frozen up for some months." ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

She was wearing a bluish print dress that brought out a kind of sallow warmth in her skin, and although it was nearly four o’clock in the afternoon, her sleeves were tucked up, as if for some domestic work, above the elbows, showing her rather slender but very shapely yellowish arms. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I had just come from another establishment, where I had seen hundreds of full-size stock plants in growing rooms, bathed in the sallow light of high-pressure sodium lamps. ❋ Adrian Higgins (2010)

My skin, a sallow tint, has begun loosening from the muscles. ❋ T.J. Forrester (2011)

Crivelli's painting may well be a masterpiece, but, as with so many of his depictions of Christ, it is unclear what purposes of piety or devotion are served by his unflinching, almost gruesome, renderings of a sallow corpse that is propped up by two ugly putti and whose arms are marked by anemic traceries of arteries and veins. ❋ James Gardner (2011)

We especially seem to notice it the next morning when we look in the mirror and see the lovely side effects of our late night filled with excess -- skin appears dry, tight and sallow, and our eyes are puffy from too much salt intake. ❋ BellaSugar.com (2011)

Their skin will look sallow and saggy because they have been dehydrating or starving themselves. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Others were black – browed ruffians; still others were fever – burnt and sallow; and about all of them was something bizarre and outlandish. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And by the time Leclère, finally convalescent, sallow and shaky, took the sun by the cabin door, Bâtard had reasserted his supremacy among his kind, and brought not only his own team-mates but the missionary's dogs into subjection. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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