piebald

Example Sentences

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A woman presented a piebald English bulldog, the Drake mascot, and Harris gamely crouched on the floor, scratching his belly, till the handler excused him, saying, “He smells food.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019

In spite of honey-and-gold weather, only 26,623 of Ebbets Field’s 32,500 seats were occupied, and there were wide, piebald patches of untented pews in left field.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2019

The moose wasn’t an albino either, according to National Geographic, but it had a partial form of leucism called piebald — where only specks of colors remain.

From The Verge • Sep. 17, 2017

But the Stop Shopping Choir exuded that piebald mixture of tentativeness and enthusiasm that makes nonprofessional singing groups so uniquely affecting.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2015

Pigeons could be made to look like roosters and peacocks, and dogs made short-haired, long-haired, pied, piebald, bowlegged, hairless, crop-tailed, vicious, mild-mannered, diffident, guarded, belligerent.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee