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

A little garden of beans — snappy French green beans, limas and creamy gigante — are stippled with aioli.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022

It’s a swift-moving, detailed biography, recounting a life that was long, eventful and stippled with tragedy and regret.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

Among the maize fields in the Midwest and Southeast, mounds by the thousand stippled the land.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann