pockmark
Example Sentences
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The team found multiple layers of sandy deposits, called turbidites, in the sediment samples taken from the pockmarks and the sub-bottom images of the pockmark field.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2024
So many uranium mines, mills and waste piles pockmark the Navajo Nation that the Environmental Protection Agency created a comic book superhero, Gamma Goat, to warn Diné children away from the sites.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2022
More than 500 abandoned uranium mines pockmark the Navajo Nation, and Billiman’s father, a Navajo code talker in World War II, died of stomach cancer, an illness associated with downwind exposure to nuclear tests.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2022
Vacancies pockmark parts of the city like a boxer’s missing teeth.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2022
I investigated a nearby pockmark and saw, in the ring of impact, the fat coil of a caterpillar.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
