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
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
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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
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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