speckle

As time passes, the speckle shifts, which allows different parts of the cells to become visible.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

But instead of seeking to speckle them with familiar, Earthly worlds, we can give in to the alienation and embrace the loneliness, let it transmute into a new kind of awe.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2022

Humans are rare in Dilg’s landscapes, though their impact is not; in “Improvements,” large tree stumps speckle the bank of a river like pockmarks.

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2021

It is restless and searching, continually morphing in shape, an abstract paintbrush swoosh one moment, a speckle of raindrops the next.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2020

They say the City is a place where diamonds speckle the sidewalk.

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson

This organization gives rise to unique pH profiles within nucleoli, which they measured and compared with the pH of nearby non-nucleolar condensates including nuclear speckles and Cajal bodies.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024

People in the stands held their phones up, creating a sea of star-like speckles in the crowd.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2023

Others showed mere speckles of damage visible among streaks of healthy, red-stained cells.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 27, 2023

Fluorosis is a cosmetic condition in which one's teeth appear to have small speckles on them.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2022

I now saw that the speckles in her eyes were splinters of bones, shards of things she had broken over the years.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Prized vinyl records and vintage audio equipment are nothing more than a blank mush, speckled with ashes and broken pieces.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

You wait until the bananas are nearly gone — soft, speckled, with that distinct on-the-edge-of-death banana smell — and turn them into something new.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

Besson’s “Dracula” is over the top, highly stylized and speckled with outrageous creatures, visual effects and a plot that somehow connects Count Dracula to the centennial anniversary of the French Revolution.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

Fighting it in the Pacific would involve a vast, watery battlespace speckled with jungle-swathed island chains—all within reach of those missiles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025

His hair is speckled gray and a bald spot is spreading on the back of his head.

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The current price run-up is pumping tax revenues into communities stretching from Alaska to North Dakota to the small towns speckling West Texas and New Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

One night in October, an enormous swirl of birds flew over Chicago, astounding those who had their binoculars trained on the flashes of yellow, white and brown speckling the sky above.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

The “white gold” they seek is contained in the hundreds of salt flats, or salares, speckling the region.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

Soon after European astronomers developed the first telescopes at the start of the 17th century, they observed dark spots speckling the Sun’s surface.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2022

The water was a clear sapphire around them, the pod of whales speckling it in hues of silver.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook