speckled

Example Sentences

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For decades, L.A.’s hazy blue days and golden pink dusks have given way to nights speckled with golden orange, where amber streetlights twinkle across hills, valleys and coastal plain like stars in the sky.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 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

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

One of Mr. Joseph’s interviewees remembers Sondheim pinning an oatmeal-raisin cookie to a speckled piece of pine paneling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

She’d given up trying to keep them spotless and they were speckled and streaked with hard mud.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline