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

At first, we’re captivated by the ornately decorative beauty of the Iyi people’s look and dress: elaborate hairstyles, dazzlingly patterned clothing, faces designed with glowingly stippled white paint.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023

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

It’s a swift-moving, detailed biography, recounting a life that was long, eventful and stippled with tragedy and regret.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

More than two hundred other buildings erected by states, corporations, and foreign governments stippled the surrounding acreage.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson