mottle
Example Sentences
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In the morning, they passed meadows spotted with purple and red flowers; he saw a group of human-sized creatures, their skin mottled like bark, dancing to a song he could not hear.
From Literature
The edges of the leaf are mottled green, but the center is a brilliant pretty pinkish purple.
From Literature
It wasn’t unlike what she’d worn onstage, the mottled gray complexion, the veins of green, the deep set of her eyes, but what it really looked like was Molly.
From Literature
Skaters say the structure—brutalist water-pumping limbs of mottled white concrete that rise out of the ground near the waterfront—is an icon.
The entire upper half of the canvas is an abstraction of mottled brushstrokes ranging from charcoal gray to a deep velvety black that surrounds the head like a heavy halo.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
