('chiefly Brit') Your financial debt 'pales into insignificance' [=seems much smaller] when you compare it with mine.
The afternoon meal 'paled in comparison to/with' [=was not nearly as good as] the feast they had later.
Once you've tasted the local apples, all others 'pale by comparison'. [=all others seem less good]
(..) The walls of your bower closing in about you. A hutch to trammel some wild thing in. So fair. So cold. Like a morning of pale spring... ...still clinging to winter's chill. Your words are poison. You'll find more cheer in a graveyard. I cannot allow you before Th'oden King (..)2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers