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

She held me at arm’s length, inventorying every little new freckle, every extra pound.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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

Families with pale skin, freckles or a history of skin cancer should be extra careful.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

The biggest risk factors for melanoma turn out to be genetic: having red hair, pale skin, freckles or moles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

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

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026

Up close she still looks remarkably like Catherine—delicate features, pale as porcelain, with a smattering of freckles across the bridge of her nose.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

His hat is houndstooth with a freckled brown feather in it.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

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

“Decent food. The Internet. I don’t miss the sun that much. At least I’m not freckling anymore. What about you?”

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer