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

Emblematic: a flaming oxblood stippled with a rainbow of other hues, all melting over unusually shaped vessels, many formed like slithery animals with human dispositions.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2020

I stippled the paint on sparingly with a brush to give it an imperfect, aged effect.

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2020

Among the maize fields in the Midwest and Southeast, mounds by the thousand stippled the land.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann