stipple

Example Sentences

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Their scarlet-colored flesh, stippled with black seeds, is a striking relic of summers past in comparison with the seedless supermarket varieties.

From New York Times

Painting in thin glazes and slight, stippled marks — a protracted, time-consuming process — she almost never let the action of her hand intrude on the theatricalized scene.

From Los Angeles Times

For the sweat, I used a very old technique called stippling, where you use a large round sponge with large different-type pores, and you saturate it with a glycerin-based product.

From Los Angeles Times

And he knew, perhaps, that a horse’s large, wet eye might convey this as powerfully as a well-dressed woman’s inquiring look toward a man brushing down the stippled hindquarters of that very same horse.

From Washington Post

But if Majella’s spoken range is curtailed, her interior range is vast and illuminated by a prose style at once accessible and stippled with strangeness.

From Washington Post