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

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

My mom was a Sasaki, and my dad, well, he could sunburn and freckle on a cloudy day.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2020

No roads cross it; ponds and lakes freckle its immensity.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

It's my freckles, I'm told, and having freckles puts me at higher risk of skin cancer.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

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

I wanted to do right by Bingo, a little white Jindo mix with strawberry-blond ears and freckles all over her snout, whose inevitable death was already becoming an intrusive thought.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

“Red hair, red freckles, red name,” she says.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

Carolina Gelen’s beetroot focaccia is spring: shocking-pink dough rising on my counter, later freckled with crystalline shards of salt.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2025

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

Her freckled light skin nothing like my mama’s smooth nut-brown.

From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome

Stray words float by in a river of frontier gibberish: “Frawder thur prueless rare shur per thurst. Mirtler freckling thow.”

From New York Times ● May 2, 2018

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

“Decent food. The Internet. I don’t miss the sun that much. At least I’m not freckling anymore. What about you?”

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer