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

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

I stippled the paint on sparingly with a brush to give it an imperfect, aged effect.

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2020

I took the emptiness of Abuelo’s room inside myself, the cold, stippled walls desolate and hard.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago