mottled
Example Sentences
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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
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 The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026
The domed blue ceiling is mottled with pinpricks of shining light, like stars emerging in the darkness.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025
There, coiled comfortably on the second step, was a thick mottled specimen that Curly recognized as a cottonmouth water moccasin, common in southern Florida.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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Of Mice and Men
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