stippled

Example Sentences

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Every flat surface and hidey-hole of this bridge is stuffed and stippled with nests.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2024

It’s a swift-moving, detailed biography, recounting a life that was long, eventful and stippled with tragedy and regret.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

The stippled pattern is associated with Olokun, a spirit the Edo believe resides in a palace beneath the sea and rules over water deities.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2021

“For the way that you give sacrificially, brother, this is for you,” Rose sings over a stippled conga pattern, celebrating Black perseverance in a voice that’s both tender and exultant.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2020

Among the maize fields in the Midwest and Southeast, mounds by the thousand stippled the land.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann