stippled

Example Sentences

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Every flat surface and hidey-hole of this bridge is stuffed and stippled with nests.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2024

In front of me, a sheer wall of stippled gneiss.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2022

Even broken by decades of war, Afghanistan is viewed as a prize, a vital strategic crossroads from ancient times onward, its mountains and valleys stippled with largely untapped mineral and energy resources.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2021

It was a message that explained emotions with examples but was not itself stippled with them.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2020

The sun had dipped too, leaving a trail of stippled oranges and purples on the horizon.

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