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

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

“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