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

Jonah glanced down and caught a glimpse of his arm: pale skin, light brown hairs, an occasional freckle.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

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

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

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026

Accessories—anything from shoelace charms to glitter freckles to decor for your decor—give consumers ways to update their look and express themselves at a fraction of the cost.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

On his left thumb, a birthmark smattering of freckles in the shape of a constellation dots across his wrinkled left thumb.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

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

There, on the front step of the house next door was a brown-haired, freckled boy packing another snowball and smiling evilly.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

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

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