stipple
verb (used with object)
to paint, engrave, or draw by means of dots or small touches.
stipples
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present tense formof stipple (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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
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 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 Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess
