Sentence examples for speckled from inspiring English sources

The word "speckled" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe something that is marked with small spots or patches of color. Example: "The speckled eggs were carefully placed in the nest."

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speckled

adjective

Marked with dots or spots, spotted

  • The bird's eggs were speckled as camouflage.

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'You speckled beast.' She peered at his name tag.

That means any pictures it took would be speckled.

In rallies at Mr Abbas's West Bank headquarters, the yellow flags of his Fatah group are increasingly speckled with Hamas's green.

On the peeling ledge, pears leaned, speckled, lopsided, more than yellow— yellow squared before an open window through which flared a nosy, fluent breeze.The fluency and apparent ease with which the poem begins to present its subtle theme could not have been achieved without a great deal of careful drafting and re-drafting.

A construction boom speckled the dreary industrial landscape with new hotels, office towers, restaurants and luxury shops.

Beyond it is the district of Berau, 70% of which is still covered in forest.It is lovely to behold, its multi-greened canopy like a vast head of broccoli, speckled with orange and yellow where an ironwood tree or a liana has forced itself up to the light.

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At first it looks more like a fat white and yellow fish swimming through a green sun-speckled ocean, as if it and the tree and the grass were occupants of a fantastical aquarium.Mr Kossoff is not the sort of painter who is photographed at glittering parties.

And then suddenly, against the backdrop of the star-speckled sky stood a geodesic dome, illuminated with a faint yellow glow.

That may explain why male speckled-wood butterflies have been found to be lopsided.

Over Nowruz, the spring holiday celebrated last month, picnickers flocked to the autonomous region's flower-speckled meadows and valleys carved by streams flowing down from snow-capped mountains.Nature is not Iraqi Kurdistan's only draw.

Founded in 1777 in the English county of Dorset, it is still based just a few sheep-speckled hilltops from the village where it began.

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