speckled
Example Sentences
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There was bracing Pep-O-Mint, cool Wint-O-Green, sharp Spear-O-Mint, clear Crysto Mint and festive Stik-O-Pep, speckled red and white like a candy cane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 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 other Tidemaker did the same, features liquefying, but then solidifying once more, his face gray, speckled with bits of metal.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
