How to Use "ashen" with Example Sentences

1. Joan collapsed , pale and trembling , her face ashen .

2. One day a few weeks later , bill came home absolutely ashen .

3. An ever so slight flush under the ashen mask of her face seemed to conceal a burning nervous lucidity in which there was not even necessity for solace .

4. The motorman 's lips were as gray as his face , and that was ashen gray ; and he shook and staggered from the superhuman effort he had put forth to stop his car .

5. Instead , with hallow eyes and an ashen face , he replied , " because no one wants to die . "