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

The stippled pattern is associated with Olokun, a spirit the Edo believe resides in a palace beneath the sea and rules over water deities.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2021

I stippled the paint on sparingly with a brush to give it an imperfect, aged effect.

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2020

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