stippling
- present participle of stipple.
Example Sentences
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Instead, Nicole asked that we use stippling to create a gradient and a ‘sunset’ effect.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2022
The sun filtered through a parade of maple and ash beyond the trailhead, stippling the wildflowers below.
From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2021
Patients sign up online, paying an average of $600 each for a stippling of shots across their foreheads.”
From Fox News • Jun. 4, 2020
Compare stippling the pages with water spots, unable to put your arms down, with balancing an ashtray on the rim of the tub, unable to put one arm down.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 25, 2019
The area of buff on the dorsal surface of each specimen is reduced by a fine, blackish mottling and stippling, and the venter of each is grayish.
From Some Reptiles and Amphibians from Korea by Byers, George W.
