freckle

Example Sentences

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“The doctor was looking at each freckle with a magnifying glass,” she wrote.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2024

I can feel the backs of my knees burn and I can see my otherwise monochrome shoulders freckle if I’m outside for a bit too long.

From Scientific American • Sep. 8, 2023

These Polynesian islands — a freckle, invisible on many maps — make up the world's fourth smallest nation, population around 12,000 and a land size of ten square miles.

From Salon • Dec. 3, 2022

Fragrant date palms, first grown by Arabs who arrived in the seventh century, freckle stretches of arable land hemmed in by sand dunes.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022

Not that she could make out sea lions from this distance—the lone sailboat she could see wasn’t any bigger than her fingernail, so a sea lion would be like the size of a freckle.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman