stippled
Example Sentences
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Social-media users are savaging promotions depicting unnaturally regular greens, shrimp like O-rings, unhealthily slick noodles and stippled chicken.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
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 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
