(n.) A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc.
(superl.) Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin.
(v. t.) To tinge with sallowness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fine wrinkling, coarse wrinkling, sallowness, looseness, and hyperpigmentation were significantly improved with tretinoin therapy.
(2) In her autobiography she writes, “Oh, the moment of complete triumph on the day that I kept my balance and came right into shore standing upright on my board!” Just as Fowles claimed to have found his inspiration for Sarah Woodruff in a dream of a strange, sallow-faced woman staring out to sea, so, too, I imagined a woman riding proudly on to Devon’s shores, standing upright on a board.
(3) 28.70% had typical facial looks of anaemia and sallow complexion.
(4) Clinical changes included decreases in surface roughness, irregular pigmentation, fine and coarse wrinkling, and sallowness.
(5) By counting the spores of protozoon Nosema apis Z. in Bürker's chamber the author was able to find, in 1495 caged bees sacrificed one week after the parasite invasion, from altogether 26 samples of various feeds statistically sifnificant differences of influencing the protozoon development only in sallow pollen.
(6) Clinically, patients experience decreased wrinkling, improved texture, and pinkening of sallow skin.
(7) Many disused railways have been turned into green footpaths, but this had been abandoned and enveloped in hawthorn, sallow and elder, with the occasional fly-tipped fridge thrown from a bridge.
(8) The forlorn expression and the sallow complexion, I'm sorry to say, are the model's own.
(9) Come, friendly caterpillars Inspired by the landscaping of Milton Keynes (which was conceived as a forest city), I’ve just planted 150 shoots of sallow in my garden.
(10) When compared with vehicle, treatment with isotretinoin resulted in statistically significant improvement in overall appearance, fine wrinkling, discrete pigmentation, sallowness, and texture.
(11) Young off-duty local waiters for the most part, sallow and saturnine or handsomely jowly, smoking furiously between sets in the high cold frozen sun before they diligently remount the high cold frozen metal stairs past a flutter of busy-bee BBC continuity wizards: loop-fed multilingual script editors with one eye and one ear on the monitor, one ear clamped to a headphone, chill mittened fingers rewinding pages, an impossible third ear half-tuned to shouted stage directions.
(12) Unlike the dapper Derrida, Žižek is a sight for sore eyes: pale to the point of sallow, bearded, overweight and effortlessly eccentric.
(13) Labour MPs looked sallow, in expectation of defeat.
(14) 75% of patients had increased specific IgE-titres against these pollens whereas maple, poplar, elm, sallow and ash allergens more often gave negative or only weak positive test results.
(15) Her face is sallow; there are shadows under her eyes.
(16) Examination of 1260 bees 14 days after the invasion demonstrated that, as compared with glycide food, the parasite development was enhanced by a feed consisting of 6, 9, and 12 per cent fresh rape pollen, 3 and 6 per cent of fresh and dried sallow pollen, 6 per cent freeze-dried pollen mixture, pollen deposited in honeycombs, 7.5, 10, and 12.5 per cent yeast dough, "Arnika" and 3 per cent Bacto peptone.
(17) Patulin was found in fruit with spontaneous brown rot (bananas, pineapples, grapes, peaches, apricots) as well as in moldy compots and in sallow-thorn juice.
(18) Chronic renal failure, regardless of its cause, often produces xerosis, pruritus, sallow hyperpigmentation, and nail changes.
(19) I was a shallow, sallow, thoroughly unwell shithead with delusions of grandeur, but it was all I knew how to be.
(20) Positive reactions, often of high intensity, were most often found with birch, alder, bog-myrtle, beech and hazel allergens whereas oak, aspen, linden, elm, sallow, maple and poplar allergens more often gave negative or only weak positive test results.
Wallow
Definition:
(n.) To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
(n.) To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
(n.) To wither; to fade.
(v. t.) To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
(n.) A kind of rolling walk.
Example Sentences:
(1) University websites wallowed in self-congratulation in the wake of the REF, where experts assessed research in 36 subject areas, looking at quality, the infrastructure that supported it, and its impact on the outside world.
(2) Let them wallow in the content that Bolt provides them, carefully calibrated to both infuriate Australia’s dwindling bigoted minority while reassuring them.
(3) As the turbulent commercial radio sector enters another new phase, Park wants to sweep away the thinking that has left too many of his colleagues wallowing in self-pity, and turn his fire on a familiar target.
(4) Her parents divorced when she was young, money was tight and there was no cable TV to wallow in.
(5) Unashamedly wallowing in pop Celebrating its 18th birthday, this year's V line-up reads like a typical, if solidly suburban, teenage house party playlist.
(6) The outrage is thumped home by this coincidence of timing: that the Premier League has reached its quarter century, now wallowing in £2.8bn annual television deals, with clubs spending £50m on right-backs , in the same year that the authorities have finally brought criminal charges for those deaths 28 years ago.
(7) Trimming, triangulating, sneaking small policy advantages and wallowing in the narcissism of small differences, the parties seemed locked in a distant and disreputable Westminster charade.
(8) The message is loud and clear to all dictators: you can arrest the opposition every other day, pass draconian laws and let your country wallow in poverty, as long as your troops are available for us when we need to go on a peace keeping mission in, say, Somalia.
(9) It was 12.24am, local time, when Alessandro Diamanti walked forward for the final, decisive kick and, when it was all done, Italy had booked a semi-final against Germany while England were wallowing in the familiar sense of deja vu that comes with another harrowing disappointment in a penalty shoot-out.
(10) When inspiration strikes, you have to hope that the other 10 people on stage will give you space to wallow in your "moment".
(11) Other newspapers, too, wallowed in the rumours of orgiastic high court judges, sado-masochistic cabinet ministers and aristocratic sex slaves wearing cards that read 'If my services don't please you, whip me'.
(12) Kevin and Perry Go Large is an excuse to wallow vicariously in the misery of adolescence.
(13) There, you wallow in yesteryear’s fabulosity, cast off by someone whose spending habits you’re morally outraged by but whose taste you can’t fault.
(14) He says his research allowed him to wallow in 70s conspiracy films such as The Conversation, The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor, "though reading Pynchon and the Illuminatus!
(15) To wallow in it would be fun but sullying, and also obscures the fact that Simmonds has done us a favour.
(16) "The pursuit of judicial refuge may produce a paradoxical effect: in the short term a rich infusion of talent for the benches; but beyond that, critics argue, the future looks bleak.Sympathy for barristers – popularly perceived as wallowing in claret, six-figure salaries and refresher fees – is limited.
(17) When he wasn't writing, he was usually swimming, most often in his moat, or wallowing in the massive cast-iron bath that lived at the back of the house.
(18) It’s so routine.” Media coverage of climate change in Fiji doesn’t have the luxury of wallowing in the sort of cosseted denialism seen in the US, Britain or Australia.
(19) It would be amazing to be able to relish the moment and wallow in some exciting new technology and upcoming entertainment, but unfortunately it's all coming loaded with all this woolly, drab bullshit around it.
(20) A sly kick at the rear of Winston Reid’s legs prompted the winger’s second yellow card – and an early wallow in the Radox.