freckle

“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

Once my aunt found a freckle on her chin, at a spot that the almanac said predestined her for unhappiness.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

I got my complexion and freckles from his side of the family, but, sure as hell, I’m Native enough to make Custer nervous.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

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 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

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

The animal’s body remained astoundingly intact through the eons, retaining even shreds of delicate, scale-studded skin and a freckling of pigment.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2021

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