Example Sentences

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However, the egg-hatching joy has been tempered with some sadness, as Speckles has since fallen ill.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2023

Speckles of mud splatter also adorn the helmets.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2022

He spent his days talking with pigeons to whom he had given names: Checkers and Wingtip and Speckles.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2018

Speckles of black mesh resemble the dots on the face of an actual jaguar.

From The Verge • Jul. 24, 2017

Slightly in advance of the others came a small, impetuous figure, a painfully thin, cross-eyed girl of fifteen, whose abundant crop of freckles had earned for her the sobriquet of "Speckles."

From The Alchemist's Secret by Williams, Isabel Cecilia