stippled

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In a light-stippled apartment on Third Avenue in New York City, on the eleventh floor of a newish colossus of a rental building fashioned of glazed brown brick, an alarm called out in Amy Lamb's bedroom.

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  1. Spotted; shaded or modeled by means of minute dots applied with the point of the brush or in a similar way.

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  • It was running out of juice, skimming low, ruby flimmer reflected in rain-stippled puddles. —  Magazine - Asimov's Science Fiction - 2007 - Issue 02 - February
  • “That was wise of you, Paul.” He began breaking eggs, while I looked through his windows across the rain-stippled harbor to the low dull heathland of Chappaquiddick. —  Scoundrel by Bernard Cornwell
  • Underfoot were puddles of bloody waste, animal heads, skins, intestines, but also whole sides of beef, parts of a butchered pig, slabs of bacon, blood-stippled turkey carcasses, heads off, necks showing gristle and startlingly white raw bone. —  Omni: November 1993
  • On New Year's Day, my niece saw wolves in every stiltgrass-covered log and multiflora rose bush stippled with red teeth. —  qarrtsiluni
  • The black patches should never be large enough to give the appearance of a blanket, nor so small as to give a stippled or dappled effect.
 

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