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How to use ashen in a sentence

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His face was ashen white, and he looked like a ghost, his skin almost translucent.
The ashen face in the bed twisted in pain, pale lips parting and pressing together.
Though our foreheads are marked with a black, ashen cross, Matthew warns us to practice our piety in secret.
I slopped the stuff on and miraculously the ashen timbers of our bench and table suite turned slowly back to a healthy brown.
The rest of us just continue to be stressed out, over worked, ashen and grey faced and up to our necks in debt.
Black strands were falling from her firm plait of hair, and her face looked ashen in the firelight.
She stared up at him menacingly, her face ashen, her eyes narrowed to two black slits.
Her face was ashen as she fumbling with her helmet, and I realized that her life support and backup had failed.
His pale complexion and ashen hair gave him an almost ghost-like appearance.
As soon as I reached my work place I saw ashen faces and tears in the eyes of my colleagues.
Then his milk-white face turned ashen, and suddenly his pale blue eyes opened widely.
Through years of boot soles and Border collie paws the unfinished plank floor has grayed and smoothed to ashen silk.
His scenes are part of a theatrical register where the spectacular strength is deafened by the ashen tones to produce a smothering of reality.
Asian Skin contains many yellow and white pigments and has an ashen undertone.
The exit poll that came on the stroke at 10pm will have caused ashen faces at Labour headquarters.
But her face was pale and ashen, and her eyes darkened with worries.
Days later, pictures of the residents' ashen faces were plastered over the papers and broadcast on the news every night, invariably showing tightly strapped face-masks.
Giovanni sighed, smiling happily, which added color to his ashen cheeks.
Erik nodded, his eyes still locked on his father's ashen face.
A thin plume of ashen smoke drifts into the crystalline sky.
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She stared at him with an ashen face and gulped twice before she could speak.
At noon there was no sunshine, only a wan, ashen light that suffused the sky.
Jake repeated, turning ashen pale, and fixing his inquisitress with a distant gaze.
The colours are greyish, the brushwork feeble, and expressionless faces match the ashen pallor of the skin.
The skies they were ashen and sober, and the leaves they were crisped and sere.
Mrs. Marborough, still garbed in night clothing, lay on the daybed, her face ashen.
The color is ashen, with chestnut tips upon the nodes and varices, and chestnut-colored patches about the aperture.
His hard face was ashen with rage, and he stared at a calendar on the wall with his cold, Phidian stare.
And the fluctuant oceans plume on plume Bears down to a rock-ribbed hidden doom, And the sky is ashen gray.
She turned ashen about the mouth, and a queasy feeling sickened her.
Nicholson, speaking precisely, but with ashen lips, 'I do this for my family, not for that unhappy young man.
He raised his hand and pointed to the bed, and his iron face was drawn and ashen white.
Slowly, faintly, the colour crept back into that ashen face.
From red that she had been, she was now ashen under her rouge.
My face must have been ashen, for Sam put a hand on my shoulder.
For some, the ashen cross may also symbolize the way Christ's crucifixion replaced Old Testament burnt offerings as atonement for human sin.
There was a healthful suffusion on their cheeks, instead of the ashen hue that had made them look so corpse-like.
Spear, his head hanging, with lips white and cheeks ashen, and his eyes heavy with shame.
Tom turned his ashen face imploring toward the speaker, made some impotent movements with his white lips, then slid limp and lifeless to the floor.
He leaned lightly with one hand on a short hickory bow, while the other rather touched than sought support, from the long, delicate handle of an ashen lance.
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