pockmark

Example Sentences

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The tortoises pockmark the desert floor with burrows that other animals use for shelter, and disperse the seeds of native plants in their waste.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2024

It appears these flows erode the pockmark centers, leaving behind sandy deposits across multiple pockmarks in the region at the same time.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2024

So many uranium mines, mills and waste piles pockmark the Navajo Nation that the Environmental Protection Agency created a comic book superhero, Gamma Goat, to warn Diné children away from the sites.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2022

Vacancies pockmark parts of the city like a boxer’s missing teeth.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2022

I investigated a nearby pockmark and saw, in the ring of impact, the fat coil of a caterpillar.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer