stipple

He received the honor of a Journal stipple portrait in 1985, after he was pushed out of the company that he co-founded.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

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

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

In one grouping, she experiments with iterative ways of filling the squares, or shading a given area with stripes and stipples.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

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

The rare mezzotints, stipples, and delicate line engravings, to say nothing of the more valuable colour prints, often realize far more than the books themselves.

From Chats on Household Curios by Burgess, Fred. W. (Frederick William)

Every flat surface and hidey-hole of this bridge is stuffed and stippled with nests.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

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

The stippled pattern is associated with Olokun, a spirit the Edo believe resides in a palace beneath the sea and rules over water deities.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2021

I stippled the paint on sparingly with a brush to give it an imperfect, aged effect.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2020

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

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

Her tattoo skills have blossomed — she can draw life-like portraits on calves using a technique called stippling; a single tattoo of angel-like wings on a back can be made of millions of dots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 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

Now some artists employ stippling, filling up cross-hatching of one colour with dots of a totally different colour, or they place dots side by side.

From Colour Measurement and Mixture by Abney, W. de W.