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Example sentences for "dots"

Lexicographically close words:
dotes; doth; dothe; doti; doting; dotted; dotter; dotterel; dotting; dottle
  1. You see right off how tiring and dazzling the garden of too many little dots of colour could be.

  2. Bill could not tell the nature of the dots at the height he was flying.

  3. Bill picked the likeliest spot in the distant landscape, all immense field with only a few groups of black dots to break its late fall greenness.

  4. The sole illumination was provided by the fading red glow of the superheated panels that had been their targets and a few bright orange dots in the gaping holes that remained.

  5. Their beams lit up red dots on the surface of the flying ball but scattered harmlessly, as the Starmen assumed they would.

  6. He was a fine fellow, this Rocky Mountain blue jay, beautiful in color and shape, with dark blue wings and tail, a smoky brown body and head and a long crest, with light blue dots on his forehead.

  7. As they went on along the side of the steep mountain toward the head of the lake, they saw goats several times, usually merely white dots on the high rocks.

  8. Here are plotted first the heights, by inches, of a group of fathers, giving the series of dots joined by the diagonal AB.

  9. These dots are then joined by the line EF.

  10. At last, sixty feet above the ground, against the blackness of the trunk showed two dots of flaming gold.

  11. In the north a cluster of black dots showed against the blue.

  12. In the tenth row the lateral line is marked by a minute ovate-oblong dot on each scale of a silvery white, so that there are about fifty such dots on each side.

  13. I could not perceive it to differ in any character from the preceding, except that it had sixty dots on each side, so that though a smaller fish it had more numerous dots and scales.

  14. Petals five, somewhat spreading, oblong, sharp at each end, white, marked with two yellow dots upon the claw.

  15. A little black blob showed against the gray; off to one side two other smaller black dots appeared.

  16. Only ahead in the sky I could see a little cluster of black dots that Miela said was a group of females hovering about the summit of the Great City.

  17. As we swung down into it I noticed above the horizon behind us a number of tiny black dots in the sky--other girls flying out from the city to our meeting.

  18. Six-fifteen:--Barclay and his corporal were but dots along the falda now, and moving swiftly.

  19. The black dots in the lead were now three in number, darting towards two others, black dots, too, some four miles away and to the right front, right in among the hills.

  20. A very favourite pattern consisted of cross bands of ruby (as above), enclosing squares or diamonds of blue, with dots of white at the intersection of the ruby bands, which persists always in running to purple.

  21. Black dots emerged from the wood, and quickly flitted back again.

  22. On another side was a smooth, curving, wavy hill, bare in outline, with white dots of grazing sheep floating about upon its green.

  23. Gradually this awe grew fainter, and she was able to look round her, and count the white dots scattered here and there on the dazzling sheet of waves.

  24. Dots so small and insignificant that they looked like ants upon a carriage-drive.

  25. As the dots mingle with the ant-heaps on the plain, or are lost in the folds of the grey prairie, a pillar of dust rises from the centre of the fan.

  26. His men are but dots strung out on either flank like buoys in the Hoogly.

  27. And presently a little fan of brown dots opened out on the grey below--opened out and diverged in pairs.

  28. The dots represent the positions of the trees that have been cut down.

  29. Can you give a correct solution that employs (1) the fewest possible signs, and (2) the fewest possible separate strokes or dots of the pen?

  30. It seemed years and years before he could get air into his burning lungs, and drive the red and black dots away.

  31. And countless dancing red and black dots filled his eyes.

  32. Colonel Welsh stiffened in a halt, lifted his head and peered at the growing dots coming out of the sky to the north.

  33. Some of the fragments of pottery are curiously marked with dots and lines.

  34. On a small proportion of those mentioned weak and undecided colors were applied in a primitive style of decoration, and in others the ornamentation consisted of lines and dots or studs.

  35. Opposite him as he sate was the face of a great pile of rocks, and while his eye dwelt upon it it suddenly began to wink and glisten with little moving points, dots so minute that he could hardly distinguish them.

  36. I looked again at the ship: she was already a mass of pearly grey, with a row of little dark grey dots along her side, indicating the position of her ports.

  37. I took advantage of the last gleam of twilight to count these dots twice over.

  38. To punch; to perforate; to stamp holes in, or dots on, by way of ornament.

  39. A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.

  40. The immediate covering of the fruit dots or sori in many ferns, usually a very thin scale attached by the middle or side to a veinlet.

  41. It is opposed to legato, and often indicated by heavy accents written over or under the notes, or by dots when the performance is to be less distinct and emphatic.

  42. The letters are represented by dots and dashes impressed or printed on paper, as, .

  43. Defn: Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.

  44. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment.

  45. White, flecked with minute dots of bay or sorrel; -- said of the color of a horse.

  46. Defn: Being or growing on the under side of a leaf, as the fruit dots of ferns.

  47. Your despatch is noiselessly written in dark blue dots and lines.

  48. Howe at South Boston, bent over the chemical paper, and smelt out the prussiate of potash, as it formed itself in lines and dots to tell the sad story.

  49. Dots were plentiful outside the harbour where we were; but well outside, like flies around sugar which they could not reach.

  50. As he passed the Wise Man he contrived not only to steal the bottle but to place two black dots on his face, and one on the faces of twenty other men.

  51. Then the child was to take the apple and be led into a room where the twenty men with the black dots were sitting in a ring.

  52. At length the ball came to an end, and then the king ordered all the doors to be shut, and search made for a man with two black dots on his cheek.

  53. I do not say that it is never useful idly to count the number of dots on the back of a card.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.