('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]
(..) Each race is bound to this fate,this one doom. Bring forth the Ring,Frodo. So it is true. In a dream... ...I saw the eastern sky grow dark... ...but in the West a pale light lingered. A voice was crying: "Your doom is near at hand. Isildur's Bane is found." Isildur's Bane. Boromir! (..)2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring