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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

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

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

From New York Times Mar. 9, 2017

With an oh, for the feel of the salt sea spray as it stipples the guffy's cheek!

From Something Else Again by Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams

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

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

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

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

The initial damage usually shows up as light yellow or gray stippling on the surface of the leaves, but as populations increase, the severity of the damage increases.

From Seattle Times Jun. 20, 2018

For two hundred years the reader would see that stippling creeping slowly along the coastal districts and navigable waters, spreading still more gradually into Indiana, Kentucky and so forth.

From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells




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