mottled

Example Sentences

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It said his heart rate had dropped and he was "mottled" in appearance.

From BBC

A mottled landscape of state-by-state abortion access followed: within two months of the June decision, 1 in 3 American women lost access to abortion in their home states, according to a Washington Post tally.

From Washington Post

The IMF has a mottled history in the South American grains producing country, where many still blame it for pushing austerity measures that exacerbated a deep economic crisis in 2001-2002 that dragged millions into poverty.

From Reuters

In “A Fragment in Time,” a girl swings toward a blue sky across a mottled white expanse, while “Biosphere” places a woman inside a jar bounded by chalky space.

From Washington Post

This mottled brown salamander, about as long as a human hand, rarely strays far from its concealed burrows beneath rocks or logs in the rivers of North Carolina.

From Scientific American