stippled

Example Sentences

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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

“For the way that you give sacrificially, brother, this is for you,” Rose sings over a stippled conga pattern, celebrating Black perseverance in a voice that’s both tender and exultant.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2020

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

The sun had dipped too, leaving a trail of stippled oranges and purples on the horizon.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook