speckle

As time passes, the speckle shifts, which allows different parts of the cells to become visible.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

But instead of seeking to speckle them with familiar, Earthly worlds, we can give in to the alienation and embrace the loneliness, let it transmute into a new kind of awe.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2022

When the seeds are folded through the batter, they dip below the surface, emerge and then finally speckle the batter.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2022

Hot spots continue to speckle the map of the country, many of them in line with low vaccination rates but others in areas where vaccinations are among the highest.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2021

The sky above them was stormy, and as they sailed closer, rain began to speckle the surface of the sea.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

This organization gives rise to unique pH profiles within nucleoli, which they measured and compared with the pH of nearby non-nucleolar condensates including nuclear speckles and Cajal bodies.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024

People in the stands held their phones up, creating a sea of star-like speckles in the crowd.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2023

Others showed mere speckles of damage visible among streaks of healthy, red-stained cells.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 27, 2023

Fluorosis is a cosmetic condition in which one's teeth appear to have small speckles on them.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2022

A half-dozen kites were flying high, speckles of bright yellow, red, and green against the gray sky.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

The Inkom, Idaho, company sells kits people can use to plant broccoli, buckwheat, alfalfa, speckled peas and more in small plastic trays, harvesting the greens within days to maximize their nutrient content.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Common rattlesnakes in California include the Mojave, northern Pacific, red, sidewinder, speckled, and western diamondback rattlesnakes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

Fighting it in the Pacific would involve a vast, watery battlespace speckled with jungle-swathed island chains—all within reach of those missiles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025

In his larger home – with patios and several rooms – a group of speckled hens fights for rooftop space between the solar panels.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025

Now, as Nhamo lay in speckled shadow and watched the ants wander over acacia thorns, she considered the implications of this story.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Diversified operates just a fraction of the wells speckling Appalachia, home to two of America’s most prolific shale formations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

The cover art of this digital-only release shows Gustavo Dudamel fixing us in a pensive gaze, gray speckling those formerly exuberant curls and an index finger propping up his forehead.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022

Soon after European astronomers developed the first telescopes at the start of the 17th century, they observed dark spots speckling the Sun’s surface.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2022

Stirring in half a cup of chopped herbs gave the slices a freshness and a pretty speckling of green.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2022

Rain began falling, softly at first, speckling my blouse and skirt with wet spots.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn