pockmarked
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Pockmarked and abraded but still firm, it’s a vehicle for beautiful distress, for committed uncertainty.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2016
Pockmarked with empty lots and burned-out row houses, the area has an unemployment rate of 29 percent and a poverty rate of 90 percent.
From Slate • Jun. 25, 2014
Pockmarked by gunfire during the liberation of Paris, it had been repaired on the cheap, with cement.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pockmarked with craters and seamed with yawning fissures from which dense vapors curled, it was seemingly devoid of habitation.
From Vulcan's Workshop by Vincent, Harl
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