mottle
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On Jan. 2, nurses reported that the patient’s breathing was shallower, with her toes beginning to mottle as her heart stopped pumping blood that far down.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
Then there was the salt: sprinkled generously enough to mottle the fry’s golden skin and amplify the earthy flavors trapped inside.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2022
The online class from 12:30-2:15 p.m. will cover identification of blossom brown rot, bacterial canker, cherry mottle leaf, shothole, cherry bark tortrix and tent caterpillar.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2021
We meet patients sodden with uncontrollable mood swings, watch their faces mottle with determination as they fight to recall the three words—blue, monkey, table—we asked them to remember just minutes ago.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 30, 2020
Not on the tongue, nor in the clothes, nor among the transient social forms, refined or rude, which mottle the surface of human life.
From The Americanism of Washington by Henry Van Dyke
Soon enough, trees everywhere were showing blotchy, mottled, yellowed leaves and suffering from twig dieback and sparse foliage.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
Bartram's bass display a light golden color with dark brown blotches along their sides, a mottled belly, and fins with a rosy tint.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 23, 2026
In adults, symptoms can include but are not limited to slurred speech, extreme shivering or muscle pain, severe breathlessness and skin that is mottled or discoloured.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
The entire upper half of the canvas is an abstraction of mottled brushstrokes ranging from charcoal gray to a deep velvety black that surrounds the head like a heavy halo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
Tall and thin, with fierce black eyes and a beak of a nose, the priest was garbed in mottled robes of green and grey and blue, the swirling colors of the Drowned God.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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Mr Johnson said there was no corresponding doctor's note for this examination of "mottling".
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2023
On the morning of Jan. 3, the patient showed more signs of mottling and had instances of apnea where she stopped breathing.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
A lopsided white one, with gently indented fingerprints mottling its surface like fish scales, rests on the decaying tatami in the large front room.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
We’ve had one batch of red beans and rice that did, unfortunately, leave the bottom with some permanent, faint mottling, but overall, after six months of vigorous testing, it’s held up excellently.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2020
There was no dark mottling or crater chains in the position of most of his canals.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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