Preposition: as

• ghost: Every time the film goes back to England we are met by a dreary world with pompous nobles and pale as a ghost Kate.

Preposition: into

• insignificance: Our sins whatever they may be, pale into insignificance compared to His own.

• comparison: The Asian financial crisis will dent export expectations, however that market pales into comparison with the Nato states.

• significance: Even'Sheffield: Sex City' would pale into significance.

Adjective modifier

• deathly: He was deathly pale, yet he seemed fired with a hope; his eyes shone.

• ghastly: On the watch last night I saw It, like a man, tall and thin, and ghastly pale.

• deadly: I've not fallen as low as that, ' said Herrick, deadly pale.

Modifies a noun

• imitation: Now renamed simply Hancock, the season was overall a pale imitation of its former glory.

• complexion: One of the men is described as being thin, about six feet tall and with a pale complexion.

• yellow: Pale yellow in color with red / brown streaks.

• shadow: The moon was up casting pale shadows among the ruins of the village.

• gray: Exterior surface: pale brown; interior surface pale gray brown; core: gray.

• ale: Rob Hill's new business venture Highland Brewery Company launched the new Scapa Special which is a classic pale ale.

Used with adjective complement

• turn: His face turned pale, he was struggling for air.

• appear: There is the same amount of red pigment on the surface of the balloon it is just spread more thinly and appears pale.

• grow: As Johnson says of the Swedish monarch: " He left the name at which the world grew pale.

• look: Why dost start, Draw back, and look so pale?

Preposition: in

• comparison: The level of violence still pales in comparison to the carnage of the turf wars between rival crack gangs a decade ago.

Preposition: by

• comparison: Every joy I had known was pale by comparison.