mottled
Example Sentences
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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 earliest such representations were found on a mottled pink sandstone dating back about 2,000 years and began to be recognised through the sacred symbol of an endless knot on the teachers' chest.
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2025
She pushed up her sleeve, baring the peacock feather and mottled skin beneath it.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Vocabulary lists containing mottled
Of Mice and Men
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The Dragonet Prophecy
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