speckle

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

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

Cobblestone streets and mom-and-pop stores speckle the downtown of this city of 18,000 that is caked in red clay soil and nestled among rolling hills.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 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

As cancellations increasingly speckle a busy fall concert calendar, the team behind Day In Day Out, Seattle’s first major music festival since the pandemic, was dealt a last-minute blow.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

Kamau looked up, and Ekon followed his brother’s gaze to take in the silver-white stars beginning to speckle the sky overhead.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

Those tell-tale black, dusty speckles first colonised the windowsill, and then took over parts of the wallpaper and nearby furniture.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2024

They lose their brightness in the oven, leaving drab streaks instead of bright rainbow speckles.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2023

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

From Scientific American ● Feb. 27, 2023

Pale white they were, with speckles, and red-ribbed undersides dark as blood.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

As he rolled up in front of my Van Nuys duplex, his teal Ford Tempo shimmering in the speckled fall sun, a wave of first-date excitement flooded my system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

The signature speckled edges and thumb indexes are preserved, helping to make the volume self-consciously display-friendly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

Gone were the seven wagons, seven brothers, five sisters, Greta the speckled mare.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

The towns speckling the Columbia River basin have long ridden the ebbs and flows of far-off markets: volatile crop prices, changes in the livestock trade, pressure on the lumber industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

If Neutraface starts speckling the homes and fences around your neighborhood, your rent might soar soon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

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 gulls beat up into the air, speckling the shore with their shadows; Sheriff Elwell watched them, and when he turned back, he saw that Reverend Griffin had not moved.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt