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

I notice a freckle, perfect and round, at the corner of his mouth.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

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

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

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

Harriet’s freckles stood out against her pale skin.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

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

But the glow of the freckled, big-eyed actor who so memorably played Marion Ravenwood has only grown stronger over time.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2023

She turned to him, her face round and her cheeks full and freckled and she leaned toward him, her lips pursed, and she kissed him on the cheek.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

The bacon on the Cowboy is crumbled to fine pebbles — freckling the surface of the pie rather than screaming “BACON,” on top of sausage.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022

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

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