How to Use sallow in a Sentence

sallow

adjective

• Silhouettes of large trees loomed out of a sallow gray haze.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
• But the birds, distressed, have plucked out all of their feathers, leaving them naked and sallow.
  — Laura Zornosa, Time, 20 Sep. 2022
• In Shadow and Bone, Alina is depicted as plain (if not homely), with mousy brown hair and pale, sallow skin.
  — Lauren Puckett, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Apr. 2021
• Shortly before Easter in 1144, a young boy named William was found dead in the sallow grass of a heath near the lively center of Norwich, England.
  — John-Paul Pagano, National Review, 23 Sep. 2019
• Kahn dispensed with the classic library layout: a central reading room with rows of desks and sallow lamp light.
  — Sara Bliss, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2017
• The elusive purple emperor butterfly has made its home in the acres of sallow trees -- a kind of willow -- that flourish on the estate.
  — Hazel Pfeifer, CNN, 1 Oct. 2020
• My face had become gaunt and haggard, my sallow skin formed shadows etched beneath my eyes that no amount of makeup could disguise.
  — Emily Listfield, Allure, 8 May 2021
• Her father should know, having spent decades hunched over an oak desk in a shipping company’s lightless front room along with a dozen other sallow men.
  — The Editors, Curbed, 26 Apr. 2021
• His round face, once crimson, had become sallow, and acquired deep lines and wrinkles; his eyes too had become like his father’s, the rims swollen and red, a feature common to most peasants who work by the sea….
  — Leslie T. Chang, The New York Review of Books, 21 Sep. 2022
• If your complexion feels sallow and dull, opt for a brightening moisturizer like this one.
  — Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 20 Sep. 2022
• Packer erases and etches into her father’s bare, sallow skin, making it worn and ravaged.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Her cherry-colored cheeks impart a glow that is far from the dull, sallow complexions of the average person that is experiencing a hangover.
  — Sara Miranda, Allure, 11 Jan. 2022
• At this hour—around midday—a sallow daylight filled the room.
  — Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
• The film is aggressively teal with a sallow greige (gray-beige) overcast.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
• If the entire plant looks sallow and yellow, give it better nutrition.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025