Sentence examples for mottled on from inspiring English sources

She looms above the bed, chuckling seductively, diamonds bright, skin oddly mottled on account of the photo transfer being stuck straight on to the pebble dash.

Their wings are mottled and olivaceous on mountain fisheries of acidic water chemistry, but are more yellowish and less darkly mottled on lime-rich streams of central Pennsylvania.

It is mottled on the underside and has a distinct golden-brown eye colour.

There is a series of stupendously beautiful prints; there are drawings of catenaries that resemble folds of gowns or shrouds; and mottled ink-on-plastic drawings whose marbled pattern suggests moonlight on rippling water.

At some point, I spilled coffee on him; the gray cover is mottled, and one corner is woody and bare.

Spare and sung in a register set so deliberately low that it forces Mr. Costello to nearly speak the lines, "North" paints images in my mind of autumnal city streets, mottled leaves on the pavement, lit only by the amber windows of a corner bar with an empty stool or two.

After a week, your virginal footwear will take on the fetching, mottled gray hue of diseased pigeon (incidentally one of New York's most prized indigenous species).

Evan, revealing a pair of slightly mottled knees, had on a helmet, slightly askew.

The Sun is the most constant object in our lives, but what we see in these videos is a livid, roiling star, mottled and seething on every wavelength.

Now it is a jagged black stump, and the pain gnawing at Mr. Kelly's mouth has transferred itself to a different tooth, mottled and rickety, on the other side of his mouth.

The purplish blood that soaks the clothes in the middle panel of Bacon's "Triptych Inspired by T. S. Eliot's 'Sweeney Agonistes' "; the rusty, mottled patch in "Blood on Pavement" — these surely owe a debt to the sticky crimson smear on the dead man's face and the blood mingling with the earth in Goya's "Third of May 1808," Ms. Mena said.