freckle

“The doctor was looking at each freckle with a magnifying glass,” she wrote.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2024

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

Jonah glanced down and caught a glimpse of his arm: pale skin, light brown hairs, an occasional freckle.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Families with pale skin, freckles or a history of skin cancer should be extra careful.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

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

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026

As a teenager, she was self-conscious about her freckles and found it hard to please her glamorous parents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 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

A smattering of freckles colored the rosy skin at the tops of his cheeks.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

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

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025

If you ask Cirone which is his favorite, he will tell you the Gold Rush, a golden-green apple with a freckled skin, crisp crunch and rich, tart flavor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

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

Miss Love did what she was told, turning her head towards the window as her black lashes brushed her freckled cheeks.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

The animal’s body remained astoundingly intact through the eons, retaining even shreds of delicate, scale-studded skin and a freckling of pigment.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2021

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