mottle

Example Sentences

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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

Ginsburg put up his gloved hand and wiped clean a face that with passion had turned a mottle of red-and-white blotches.

From From Place to Place by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)