freckle

I can feel the backs of my knees burn and I can see my otherwise monochrome shoulders freckle if I’m outside for a bit too long.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023

These Polynesian islands — a freckle, invisible on many maps — make up the world's fourth smallest nation, population around 12,000 and a land size of ten square miles.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2022

To those who encounter this magical bird, not only is a wish granted, but a golden freckle, like a sparkly skin blemish, is also deposited somewhere on their faces.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022

Paris Tippett, 26, from Reading said she noticed a new freckle on her leg after prolonged sunbed use and was subsequently diagnosed with stage two melanoma.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2022

And why should she care — a rude, freckle faced sailor who took more notice of a strip of canvas than of a brocaded gown?

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

You want freckles and edges that lean just shy of too dark.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026

Gigi is her age, 21, with tanned skin, green eyes, freckles, winged eyeliner and long black hair.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025

As the team worked, Tilly gained freckles and a few extra pounds so she wouldn’t look too slight for an action movie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025

By the 1920s, a few freckles and a well-placed tan line would probably mean you had moved up a social class or two, and suggested health, wealth and luxurious holidays.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025

He was a skinny kid with red hair, freckles, and a big forehead.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

Its shell is painted to resemble SpongeBob’s freckled face.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025

I started to build an image of him in my mind: red hair, freckled, pale skin, a slight beer gut, maybe around 40, single, no kids.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2025

A fuzzy, freckled gull chick emerged from a bayberry bush, stared curiously at me as if it had spotted a Martian, and then waddled back to its hiding place.

From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

But the glow of the freckled, big-eyed actor who so memorably played Marion Ravenwood has only grown stronger over time.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2023

High on his left arm, a tattoo of a red cobra, fanged, coiled, and ready to strike, stood in stark relief to his pale, freckled skin.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

The bacon on the Cowboy is crumbled to fine pebbles — freckling the surface of the pie rather than screaming “BACON,” on top of sausage.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022

Jupiter’s great red spot is visible at the 10 o’clock position; a freckling of white ovals—most distinct at eight and nine o’clock—likely indicate deep atmospheric storms.

From Time ● Oct. 25, 2017

It is a freckling of snow on cobbled pavements and the golden light from a window on a dark evening that glows like a Russian icon on a museum wall.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2017

Holocaust Memorial Museum stretched halfway down the block Wednesday, raindrops freckling the sidewalk, as Barbara Conroy and her teenage granddaughter, Molly Giguiere, inched toward the doors.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2017

For once I was glad of the privacy of the deep sunbonnet that Mother made me wear to prevent freckling.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly