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Recent Examples of ashen Metal railings or a charred brick chimney were all that remained to distinguish the ashen piles. Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025 But the film that follows — luminously ashen where too many recent movies and TV shows have just been irritatingly dim — is flooded with a moonlight so lucid and alive that even the story’s most stygian moments might as well have been set at high noon. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024 Blend it in with a finger, a brush, or a sponge, and voila: a summery, outdoorsy flush to keep ashen winter skin at bay. Jenny Berg, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2024 The cruelest consolation for an innocent life made ashen before her time. Andy Andersen, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for ashen
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Adjective
  • Similar prompts yielded images of a skull with glowing eyes hovering above an ornate cross, and another pallid, blank-eyed woman — this one hooded, with a halo of fire, crying blood.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2025
  • My skin was pallid, and lesions covered the inside of my mouth.
    Suleika Jaouad, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Symptoms of heat exhaustion may include heavy sweating and fatigue, a weak pulse and skin that’s cool, pale or clammy, as well as headache, dizziness, nausea and fainting.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2025
  • The wine is a pale straw with greenish highlights, featuring aromas of green apple, lemon, and spring flowers.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025

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“Ashen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ashen. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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