stipple

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

Palm trees and cactuses stipple the town, and reddish buttes rise in the distance.

From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

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

Stipp′ler, one who stipples: a coarse brush for stippling; Stipp′ling, stippled work of any kind.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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

White throats and cheek patches shimmered above pale breast feathers stippled with black flecks.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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

Compare stippling the pages with water spots, unable to put your arms down, with balancing an ashtray on the rim of the tub, unable to put one arm down.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 25, 2019

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

This lad is gazing through the casement into a sunny garden—for the artist's vague stippling invites the suspicion of grass and trees.

From Chimney-Pot Papers by Endell, Fritz August Gottfried