mottled
Example Sentences
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Skaters say the structure—brutalist water-pumping limbs of mottled white concrete that rise out of the ground near the waterfront—is an icon.
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.
The domed blue ceiling is mottled with pinpricks of shining light, like stars emerging in the darkness.
From Los Angeles Times
The effect is dark and mottled — it looks as if the concrete has swallowed the color.
From Los Angeles Times
The earliest such representations were found on a mottled pink sandstone dating back about 2,000 years and began to be recognised through the sacred symbol of an endless knot on the teachers' chest.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
