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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stipple.

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Examples

  • The shirt is hypnotic: patterned like a fiery lava flow with stipples of disintegrating, charred molten rock.

    Family life 2012

  • Encouraged by the results of the new technique, he tried the same thing on a bigger scale, with another artist holding the other end of a twelve-foot length of art paper as they galloped and wove through small charred trees down a ravine, registering the black abrasions of tree-trunks and the charcoal stipples and scrapings of saplings and shrubs.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • My face grew hot even as stipples of gooseflesh rose all over my body.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • My face grew hot even as stipples of gooseflesh rose all over my body.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • My face grew hot even as stipples of gooseflesh rose all over my body.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Encouraged by the results of the new technique, he tried the same thing on a bigger scale, with another artist holding the other end of a twelve-foot length of art paper as they galloped and wove through small charred trees down a ravine, registering the black abrasions of tree-trunks and the charcoal stipples and scrapings of saplings and shrubs.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • JULIE THOMAS MCNAMEE, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: And these black stipples are ozone damage.

    CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2008 2008

  • The corners were black glass columns alive with purple and blue refraction stipples that swarmed up and down like rodent climbers.

    The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007

  • Each writer has his method; Scott was no stipples or niggler, but, as we shall see later, he often altered much in his proof-sheets.

    Waverley 2004

  • Moore stipples his film with damning and in some cases doubtful statistics—for example, that Mr. Bush spent 42 percent of the first eight months of his presidency on vacation—and vituperation.

    Archive 2004-06-01 2004

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