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

The landscape of the ancient Maya is stippled with ruins whose names are unknown to scholars and whose hieroglyphic inscriptions mention scores of places the locations of which are now lost.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 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

Goose bumps stippled his bare arms despite the heat, but he did his best to ignore them too, and continued his counting.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray