mottle

Example Sentences

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“We’re going to Cunningham’s stream,” I told her, feeling a jump in my throat, picturing Cunningham’s face, red and mottled from too much mutton.

From Literature

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

In the morning, they passed meadows spotted with purple and red flowers; he saw a group of human-sized creatures, their skin mottled like bark, dancing to a song he could not hear.

From Literature

The edges of the leaf are mottled green, but the center is a brilliant pretty pinkish purple.

From Literature

It wasn’t unlike what she’d worn onstage, the mottled gray complexion, the veins of green, the deep set of her eyes, but what it really looked like was Molly.

From Literature