speckle
Example Sentences
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Managing speckle is somewhat similar to managing cloud cover.
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
It is restless and searching, continually morphing in shape, an abstract paintbrush swoosh one moment, a speckle of raindrops the next.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2020
Instead, with a frown, she spits on her finger and rubs at the reddish brown spots—dried blood from flea bites I scratch too much—that speckle the sleeves of my dirty white blouse.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
Vocabulary lists containing speckle
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