speckle

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

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

Photographs of children and grandchildren speckle the walls.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2022

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

Hundreds of firefighters raced across miles and miles of forest land, often outnumbering the populations of the small towns that speckle southern Oregon.

From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021

They say the City is a place where diamonds speckle the sidewalk.

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson

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

While eggs from the store usually come in a choice of brown or white, with a backyard flock you can have eggshell colors in blues and greens, chocolate brown, or covered in speckles.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2022

The white speckles that dotted her feathers, which rose to the ceiling, made her plumage look like a snow-covered pine tree forest.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Prized vinyl records and vintage audio equipment are nothing more than a blank mush, speckled with ashes and broken pieces.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

You wait until the bananas are nearly gone — soft, speckled, with that distinct on-the-edge-of-death banana smell — and turn them into something new.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

As he rolled up in front of my Van Nuys duplex, his teal Ford Tempo shimmering in the speckled fall sun, a wave of first-date excitement flooded my system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

One of Mr. Joseph’s interviewees remembers Sondheim pinning an oatmeal-raisin cookie to a speckled piece of pine paneling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

The horn, a speckled, ivory spiral, protruded from between black eyes that were undeniably intelligent.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

The towns speckling the Columbia River basin have long ridden the ebbs and flows of far-off markets: volatile crop prices, changes in the livestock trade, pressure on the lumber industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

The “white gold” they seek is contained in the hundreds of salt flats, or salares, speckling the region.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

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

The chopped leaves are mixed in later, wilting in the broth and speckling the rice with bits of green.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022

Maybe that's where there is money falling from the sky, diamonds speckling the sidewalks.

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson