stipple
verb (used with object)
to paint, engrave, or draw by means of dots or small touches.
stippled
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past participleof stipple.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof stipple.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
stippleverb (used with object)to paint, engrave, or draw by means of dots or small touches.
Example Sentences
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Social-media users are savaging promotions depicting unnaturally regular greens, shrimp like O-rings, unhealthily slick noodles and stippled chicken.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Every flat surface and hidey-hole of this bridge is stuffed and stippled with nests.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
In front of me, a sheer wall of stippled gneiss.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 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 see my wilderness home muddy with wallows and stippled with pig bristles.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
