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

On the album opener, “Code,” Hutchings delivers his emphatically stippled phrases as if sending a message across space-time, perhaps in Morse.

From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2022

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

I took the emptiness of Abuelo’s room inside myself, the cold, stippled walls desolate and hard.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago