birthmark

Example Sentences

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One gets the sense that Miriam’s inner darkness is inseparable from her brilliance, like Georgiana’s birthmark in Hawthorne’s early short story.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

He has the tender, shining eyes of an ingenue while Del Campo, who has a striking birthmark on her cheek, is a femme fatale able to hold her own against Wolff’s selfish, useless playboy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025

Mr Rhodes was born with a large facial birthmark as a result of congenital melanocytic nevus and was left with scarring following multiple surgeries to remove it as a child.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2024

In my shower in California, I scrub the soap against a rough white cotton washcloth and move the towel across every limb, every birthmark, every scar.

From Salon • Jul. 8, 2023

Horace Whaley scratched the birthmark on his forehead and watched the falling snow beyond the courtroom windows.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson