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mottle

[mot-l] / ˈmɒt l /


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On Jan. 2, nurses reported that the patient’s breathing was shallower, with her toes beginning to mottle as her heart stopped pumping blood that far down.

From Washington Times Feb. 3, 2023

Then there was the salt: sprinkled generously enough to mottle the fry’s golden skin and amplify the earthy flavors trapped inside.

From Washington Post Feb. 7, 2022

The online class from 12:30-2:15 p.m. will cover identification of blossom brown rot, bacterial canker, cherry mottle leaf, shothole, cherry bark tortrix and tent caterpillar.

From Seattle Times Jun. 4, 2021

We meet patients sodden with uncontrollable mood swings, watch their faces mottle with determination as they fight to recall the three words—blue, monkey, table—we asked them to remember just minutes ago.

From Scientific American Jan. 30, 2020

What is the cause and cure of mottle leaf of citrus trees?

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson

Soon enough, trees everywhere were showing blotchy, mottled, yellowed leaves and suffering from twig dieback and sparse foliage.

From Slate Apr. 20, 2026

Bartram's bass display a light golden color with dark brown blotches along their sides, a mottled belly, and fins with a rosy tint.

From Science Daily Mar. 23, 2026

Skaters say the structure—brutalist water-pumping limbs of mottled white concrete that rise out of the ground near the waterfront—is an icon.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 7, 2026

The mottled brownish-red of the Heath tiles is a huge part of that environmental dialogue, and on a recent sun-soaked Friday they shone with a radiant luster under an azure sky.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 10, 2025

There was a lively wind, and the great landscape was mottled with cloud-shadows, moving, Mary thought, like the migration of some herd of unimaginable beasts.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Mr Johnson previously said there was no corresponding doctor's note mentioning "mottling" and claimed the nurse's note was "a complete fabrication".

From BBC Jun. 28, 2023

On the morning of Jan. 3, the patient showed more signs of mottling and had instances of apnea where she stopped breathing.

From Washington Times Feb. 3, 2023

A lopsided white one, with gently indented fingerprints mottling its surface like fish scales, rests on the decaying tatami in the large front room.

From New York Times Dec. 3, 2021

The artist also calls attention to his presence by mottling the pigment and scratching into it.

From Washington Post Mar. 9, 2021

There was no dark mottling or crater chains in the position of most of his canals.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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