freckle

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

To those who encounter this magical bird, not only is a wish granted, but a golden freckle, like a sparkly skin blemish, is also deposited somewhere on their faces.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022

Paris Tippett, 26, from Reading said she noticed a new freckle on her leg after prolonged sunbed use and was subsequently diagnosed with stage two melanoma.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2022

Had she always had that tiny freckle next to her left eye?

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

Gigi is her age, 21, with tanned skin, green eyes, freckles, winged eyeliner and long black hair.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025

She reminded me of my mother, as she had fair skin, freckles, and long brown hair.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

Carolina Gelen’s beetroot focaccia is spring: shocking-pink dough rising on my counter, later freckled with crystalline shards of salt.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2025

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

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025

If you ask Cirone which is his favorite, he will tell you the Gold Rush, a golden-green apple with a freckled skin, crisp crunch and rich, tart flavor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

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's all freckled, and reminds me of a caramel drop cookie.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

“Look at this airport, built by Arabs!” he exclaims as the family disembarks in Tripoli, ignoring the cigarette butts freckling the ground.

From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2016

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