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And that is not even her breeding plumage, when her eyes turn aquamarine, with matching stipples around the edges, and the inside of her mouth turns cobalt blue.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2024

In one grouping, she experiments with iterative ways of filling the squares, or shading a given area with stripes and stipples.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2023

But it gets lost in much of the black-and-white coverage of circumstances that have at least a few stipples of gray.

From New York Times • May 8, 2021

His globs and stipples and smears — seemingly brisk and impulsive, but painstakingly applied and endlessly revised — ravished.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2017

The fashionable photographer, knowing this, carefully stipples out of his negative any striking characteristics in the form of his sitter the negative may show.

From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Speed, Harold