stipple

Microscopic chasms forming a sea of conical jagged peaks stipple the surface of a material called black silicon.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024

Also known as acoustical stipple ceilings, they were once a popular choice for their ability to absorb sound and hide imperfections.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

I introduced a forehead piece to the existing Stage 3 look and added old-age stipple around the eyes, along with eyebrow hair pieces.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2024

He is a sculptor by trade, the creator of the kinds of statues that stipple the stadiums, plazas and rotundas celebrating our sports icons.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2018

He’s wearing the uniform of the Guardians, but his cap is tilted at a jaunty angle and his sleeves are rolled to the elbow, showing his forearms, tanned but with a stipple of dark hairs.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

And that is not even her breeding plumage, when her eyes turn aquamarine, with matching stipples around the edges, and the inside of her mouth turns cobalt blue.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

In one grouping, she experiments with iterative ways of filling the squares, or shading a given area with stripes and stipples.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

The 26-year-old tenor saxophonist has set most of these original compositions at a medium-fast tempo, and her saxophone stipples and scampers, gesturing toward the influence of the alto saxophonist Steve Lehman.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2018

His globs and stipples and smears — seemingly brisk and impulsive, but painstakingly applied and endlessly revised — ravished.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2017

Hers has little stipples, you know, about the nose, when you go close.

From The Heavenly Twins by Madame Sarah Grand

Every flat surface and hidey-hole of this bridge is stuffed and stippled with nests.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

In front of me, a sheer wall of stippled gneiss.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2022

A little garden of beans — snappy French green beans, limas and creamy gigante — are stippled with aioli.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022

Even broken by decades of war, Afghanistan is viewed as a prize, a vital strategic crossroads from ancient times onward, its mountains and valleys stippled with largely untapped mineral and energy resources.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

More than two hundred other buildings erected by states, corporations, and foreign governments stippled the surrounding acreage.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Instead, Nicole asked that we use stippling to create a gradient and a ‘sunset’ effect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2022

The sun filtered through a parade of maple and ash beyond the trailhead, stippling the wildflowers below.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2021

Patients sign up online, paying an average of $600 each for a stippling of shots across their foreheads.”

From Fox News ● Jun. 4, 2020

Compare stippling the pages with water spots, unable to put your arms down, with balancing an ashtray on the rim of the tub, unable to put one arm down.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 25, 2019

It will be seen that these come with and without dot stippling.

From Mohave Pottery by Michaell J. Harner