mottled
Example Sentences
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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
Skaters say the structure—brutalist water-pumping limbs of mottled white concrete that rise out of the ground near the waterfront—is an icon.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
