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Example sentences for "stippled"

Lexicographically close words:
stipendiary; stipends; stipes; stipitate; stipple; stippling; stipulate; stipulated; stipulates; stipulating
  1. The sea off Manomet was no longer chaotic and menacing, but was stippled with dancing light on a soft, rich blue that was as soothing to the sense as the other had been disquieting.

  2. The fields seemed bubbled with lava, their blackened surfaces stippled in with yellow and brown.

  3. The piece is struck in brass and has an edged and stippled border.

  4. Similar in over-all design to the 1821 officers' plate, round with outer ring, these plates were rough cast in brass and had a stippled surface.

  5. However, the background of this plate has a stippled surface rather than a sunburst.

  6. The eagle is struck in brass, and the stippled inner portion of the shield, product of a separate strike, is soldered in place; thus, the plate proper must be considered a stock pattern.

  7. When a piece of work is rubbed in, it may lightly be stippled with the dry brush (or the stippling may first be done in distemper before the oil color is applied).

  8. The work, when dry, may be lightly stippled in distemper, or a thin glaze of color without stippling may be applied to bring the work to the desired depth of color; this shading-color may be mixed in oil or water color.

  9. The work can first be stippled in distemper, and when dry rubbed in lightly in oil; or the roller can be applied directly to the stippled work or to the groundwork, and afterwards stippled if necessary.

  10. The work looks better when lightly stippled in water color with the blender.

  11. Up aloft in the clearings of the sky, clusters of shrapnel stippled the air round aeroplanes, and the detonations reached us, far and fine.

  12. I have seen the concentric circles by which the stippled multitude is ever renewed.

  13. The former thatch of half-curly and indeterminately yellowish fuzz had changed to a rough tawny coat, wavy and unbelievably heavy, stippled at the ends with glossy black.

  14. Bruce's snowy chest and black-stippled coat were fluffed out by many recent baths.

  15. That day, after the midday dinner, Philippe Desmahis walked into the Amour peintre, his portfolio under his arm, and brought the citoyen Jean Blaise a plate he had just finished, a stippled engraving of the Suicide of Robespierre.

  16. Prud'hon could barely earn bread for his wife and children by drawing subjects which Copia reproduced in stippled engravings.

  17. With walnut most of the work will be accomplished with the over-grainer and riggers or pencils, after the groundwork is dry; if portions are stippled with the badger in the first working it will be all the better.

  18. We must remember that the presentations of sense are in all cases given in a stippled form, that is, by the stimulation of a number of separate and distinct points.

  19. But in all cases there is a stippling; and yet from these stippled sensations the mind in all cases elaborates a continuum.

  20. The facetted eyes of insects, in which a stippled image is formed, on the principle of mosaic vision.

  21. In all cases out of the stippled sense-stimuli we form a continuum.

  22. The external field of vision is thus reproduced in miniature mosaic at the points of the crystalline cones--thus there is produced by the juxtaposition of contiguous points a stippled image.

  23. Thus there is produced a reduced stippled image, c' d', of the arrow.

  24. And it must be remembered that, even in human vision, the stimulation is not that of a continuum, but is stippled with the fine stippling of the ends of the rods and cones.

  25. The body is black dorsally and laterally, and bluish gray ventrally; the tail musculature is brown and stippled with darker brown.

  26. Specimens from the mountains have greatly carinate enlarged dorsals, large lateral tubercles, and heavily stippled throats; in these characters they resemble specimens from Morelos, Guerrero, and Oaxaca.

  27. Five others from the Sierra de Coalcoman and one from Puerto de Garnica in the Cordillera Volcanica have the bellies heavily stippled with black, giving a gray appearance.

  28. The fins are transparent and stippled with brown, the stippling being most pronounced on the posterior two-thirds of the upper tail-fin.

  29. Stippled with yellowish-green spots of light, the latter loses its contours and becomes a part of nature.

  30. The downthrow of the mountain, stippled with sage-brush, gives way to tawny sand glistening here and there with white patches of alkali, mottled with dark blocks of irrigated land.

  31. The strip of land shelves rapidly, and is dotted with patches of forest, rough boulders, and the general debris of the mountain-chain, and stippled and streaked with little rivulets that trickle onward toward the sea.

  32. All about her the foam-stippled water glowed with points of phosphorescence, as though a thousand ghostly lanterns were afloat.

  33. The white façade opposite was densely stippled with red.

  34. A black mass was crushed together under the stage, a darkness stippled with innumerable faces, and quivering with the minute oscillation of waved white handkerchiefs and waving hands.

  35. Looking down the effect was a vast area of stippled pink, each dot a still upturned face regarding him.

  36. And to the south over the hills came vast aqueducts with sea water for the sewers, and in three separate directions ran pallid lines--the roads, stippled with moving grey specks.

  37. At the top is a broad band richly enamelled in "famille verte" colours with flowers and foliage on a stippled ground bordered with the key design in black on bright green.

  38. It is not only the stippled backgrounds of the borders that please the eye.

  39. The analogy between this work and those known as Le Gascon's is palpable; inside and outside, the cover is stippled with small tools (au petit fer) in the same manner.

  40. Delicate meandering lines streak the plain backward and forward and rule it in squares, and these windings are stippled with men.

  41. The wide and stippled flight of an army of crows sweeps the sky.

  42. For the graining of it in distemper the same colors should be used in that medium as noted for oil work, and the veining pencilled on the stippled surface and well blended out while still wet.

  43. To Cure and Refine a Stippled or Blotched Skin.

  44. Sometimes the wings are so thickly stippled with the darker colour that they appear to be greyish, with interrupted and indistinct whitish cross lines.

  45. A stippled whitish stripe before the central band, usually only faintly indicated in affinitata, is fairly distinct as a rule.

  46. Twelve sided edge, thirteen stippled hearts in border, center like No.

  47. In places the early stippled specimens of Sandwich glass are only a thirty-second of an inch in thickness.

  48. Thirteen stippled hearts in border slightly larger cup plate than No.

  49. The Anchor—Similar plate with large anchor stippled ground stars and stippled triangles alternating in border.

  50. Twelve sided serrated edge, twelve stippled hearts in border with drop ornaments between them.

  51. The rose and pansy on stippled ground, size of bee hive, border of pointed leaves on clear grounds.

  52. Eight sided flaring salt, earliest period, fine stippled background with rose, fleur de lis and beautifully designed American eagle on bottom.

  53. The Butterfly—A butterfly on stippled center ground, border of eight forget-me-nots on clear ground.

  54. Rayed eagle—Deeply serrated, edge with bulls eye in each scallop, 13 stars with rays on stippled field.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stippled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bespangled; blotchy; dotted; freckled; mottled; patchy; peppered; pocked; pockmarked; pocky; spangled; speckled; spotted; sprinkled; stippled; studded; variegated