stipples
- present tense form of stipple (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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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
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
The 26-year-old tenor saxophonist has set most of these original compositions at a medium-fast tempo, and her saxophone stipples and scampers, gesturing toward the influence of the alto saxophonist Steve Lehman.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2018
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 rare mezzotints, stipples, and delicate line engravings, to say nothing of the more valuable colour prints, often realize far more than the books themselves.
From Chats on Household Curios by Burgess, Fred. W. (Frederick William)
