Collocations for "paling"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "paling" in context.
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pale
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- has a pale [face, complexion, body]
- has pale [legs, skin, lips]
- pale [blue, yellow, green]
- a pale-[blue] [sky, tone, car, dress]
- a pale shade of [blue]
- a pale [spot, mark] (on)
- he [went, turned] pale
- [went] pale from the [sight, fright, shock, news] (of)
- went [very, completely, horribly, terribly] pale
- looking pale and [wan, tired, ill]
- you look pale
- the [shock] turned her (face) pale
- under a pale [moon, light]
- under the pale [moonlight, street lights]
- is (but) a pale imitation of (the real thing)
- pale [protests, opposition]
- pale into [insignificance, obscurity]
- my [problem, poor luck, pain] pales in comparison
- [everything, all] else pales in comparison [to, with]
- the [threat, height, number] pales into insignificance compared [to, with]
- pale at the sight of [blood, a ghost, them]
- pale at the [thought, idea sight] of
- [hammer, put] nails in the pale
- [decorate, finish off] the fence with pales
- a [fence, gate] made of pales
- within the pale of [decency, morality, science]
- his language is beyond the pale