speckle

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

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

Cobblestone streets and mom-and-pop stores speckle the downtown of this city of 18,000 that is caked in red clay soil and nestled among rolling hills.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 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

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

Kamau looked up, and Ekon followed his brother’s gaze to take in the silver-white stars beginning to speckle the sky overhead.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

It had little wet speckles of cold on the outside already.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

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

As I approached the site on my tour bus—the only sanctioned way to visit—hundreds of locked red doors protecting the grottoes came into view, speckled across a sun-bleached cliff face more than a mile long.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

It must have been there for a long time, because the crystal glass of ice water beside the silver dome was speckled with thick beads of condensation.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The current price run-up is pumping tax revenues into communities stretching from Alaska to North Dakota to the small towns speckling West Texas and New Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

Tiny spots of bright, white light speckling a jet black field suggest a placid night sky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

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

The water was a clear sapphire around them, the pod of whales speckling it in hues of silver.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook