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stipple

[stip-uhl] / ˈstɪp əl /


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He received the honor of a Journal stipple portrait in 1985, after he was pushed out of the company that he co-founded.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

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’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

But it gets lost in much of the black-and-white coverage of circumstances that have at least a few stipples of gray.

From New York Times May 8, 2021

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

From New York Times Mar. 9, 2017

The rare mezzotints, stipples, and delicate line engravings, to say nothing of the more valuable colour prints, often realize far more than the books themselves.

From Chats on Household Curios by Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess

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

Emblematic: a flaming oxblood stippled with a rainbow of other hues, all melting over unusually shaped vessels, many formed like slithery animals with human dispositions.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 30, 2020

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

Now some artists employ stippling, filling up cross-hatching of one colour with dots of a totally different colour, or they place dots side by side.

From Colour Measurement and Mixture by W. de W. Abney




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