Example Sentences

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As far south as Albuquerque, ski tows and warming huts were dotting the Rockies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Early wildflowers were dotting the deep green of the fields, and the sky was clean and blue.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson

Once more the west was retreating, once again the orderly stars were dotting the eastern sky.�

From Howards End by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)

There we were, dotting with our white dry sails the hard blueness of the deep sea. 

From The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph

At first Middleton could not distinguish the small dark objects, that were dotting the dusky clouds, but as they came swiftly onward, first their forms, and then their heavy waving wings, became distinctly visible.

From The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore