Example Sentences

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There’s a creamy baked potato soup, pale and plush, freckled with salty bacon.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026

Its shell is painted to resemble SpongeBob’s freckled face.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2025

A fuzzy, freckled gull chick emerged from a bayberry bush, stared curiously at me as if it had spotted a Martian, and then waddled back to its hiding place.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2023

But the glow of the freckled, big-eyed actor who so memorably played Marion Ravenwood has only grown stronger over time.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2023

He was slighter than Bun, heavily freckled, but he had Bunny’s sandy hair and his sharp little nose.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt