I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pall of smoke (= a thick cloud of smoke hanging over something )
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A thick pall of smoke hung over Cape Town.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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For Sasha, the celebrity lifestyle was beginning to pall .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But playing a psycho killer palls fairly soon.
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But the delights of the latter had begun to pall .
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However, silent contemplation of the passing forest tended to pall after several unbroken miles of it.
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It was getting chilly and the novelty of the river palled.
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Now even these, by reason of their frequency, were beginning to pall .
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Put simply, the thrill of flouting grandfather's wishes was beginning to pall .
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Then, too, repeated visits to cultural monuments doubtless palled in time, natural curiosity withered by sheer surfeit.
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These notes, however, should be used sparingly as they soon pall on the ear.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
cast
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Few people were talking and the silence of night cast its pall over the city.
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But news of a major management bloodletting, impending layoffs and a possible takeover cast a pall over the festivities.
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Lessard tries to show that the sins of Stanford White cast a moral pall over the White clan.
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But it had cast a pall that had still not lifted.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A global pall of dust raised by the eruption reddened sunsets everywhere on Earth for several months.
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A smoke pall spread over the region like the prototype of a nuclear winter.
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But a worrying pall of familiarity hangs over the proceedings.
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Night fell upon, and spread its funereal pall over, a field of blood where death held unrestrained carnival!
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One would find oneself driving along in a pall of black poison.
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Outside a massive pall of cloud hung low over the harbour.
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She felt an aura of sadness around her like a pall .
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The dark pall of the dream settled over him again.