freckle

With a flash of light, 2,000 photographs are taken of my body, in the hope of capturing every mark, freckle and mole to analyse for different skin cancers.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

“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

Josie could see every tiny freckle on her video-self’s nose.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

But I've also learned a valuable lesson - that I could be more at risk of skin cancer because of my freckles.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

It's my freckles, I'm told, and having freckles puts me at higher risk of skin cancer.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

You want freckles and edges that lean just shy of too dark.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026

I wanted to do right by Bingo, a little white Jindo mix with strawberry-blond ears and freckles all over her snout, whose inevitable death was already becoming an intrusive thought.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

If it weren't for the hair and the bumpy freckles, her face would've looked like a baby's.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

The film’s aesthetic is bold and brash, featuring brilliantly hued red floors and walls designed to look like Cathy’s freckled skin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

Its shell is painted to resemble SpongeBob’s freckled face.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025

I started to build an image of him in my mind: red hair, freckled, pale skin, a slight beer gut, maybe around 40, single, no kids.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2025

A fuzzy, freckled gull chick emerged from a bayberry bush, stared curiously at me as if it had spotted a Martian, and then waddled back to its hiding place.

From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

She pauses to make sure I’m paying attention and crinkles up her freckled nose.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Mr. Arbery’s case has reflected the conflicting currents that have long coursed through Glynn County, situated in what’s known as the Golden Isles freckling the Georgia coast between Savannah and Jacksonville.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2020

Jupiter’s great red spot is visible at the 10 o’clock position; a freckling of white ovals—most distinct at eight and nine o’clock—likely indicate deep atmospheric storms.

From Time ● Oct. 25, 2017

It is a freckling of snow on cobbled pavements and the golden light from a window on a dark evening that glows like a Russian icon on a museum wall.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2017

Holocaust Memorial Museum stretched halfway down the block Wednesday, raindrops freckling the sidewalk, as Barbara Conroy and her teenage granddaughter, Molly Giguiere, inched toward the doors.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2017

For once I was glad of the privacy of the deep sunbonnet that Mother made me wear to prevent freckling.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly