stipple
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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
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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
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
Each writer has his method; Scott was no stipples or niggler, but, as we shall see later, he often altered much in his proof-sheets.
From Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
Every flat surface and hidey-hole of this bridge is stuffed and stippled with nests.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
At first, we’re captivated by the ornately decorative beauty of the Iyi people’s look and dress: elaborate hairstyles, dazzlingly patterned clothing, faces designed with glowingly stippled white paint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
The landscape of the ancient Maya is stippled with ruins whose names are unknown to scholars and whose hieroglyphic inscriptions mention scores of places the locations of which are now lost.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
It was a message that explained emotions with examples but was not itself stippled with them.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2020
I see my wilderness home muddy with wallows and stippled with pig bristles.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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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
The French are either not fond of, or they do not much patronise, engraving in the stippling manner: "au poinctilliet"--as they term it.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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