How to Use pockmark in a Sentence

pockmark

1 of 2 noun
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  • Frost layers can trap air bubbles in the ice, which can work their way out as tiny pockmarks.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The wrappers are tender at the ends, but golden and crispy at the center and dappled with pockmarks from the sauté oil.
    — Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Researchers have found pockmarks on the face of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy.
    — Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Researchers have found pockmarks on the face of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy.
    — Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Nestled among the glitzy cement-and-glass skyscrapers in the capital, Beirut, some buildings still bear the pockmarks and jagged tears of bullets and shells.
    — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Similar pockmarks have been found in many other areas across the globe.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 5 June 2017
  • McCoy said the two noticed the old metal screen had some pockmarks and holes — evidence that over the years, people had used the screen for target practice.
    — Bill Leukhardt, courant.com, 30 June 2017
  • For a bobsled, one tiny pockmark can cause a sled to bounce, perpetuating the problem.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Helping make the flat drawings come to life is a thick coating of pockmark-like brushstrokes on everything from faces to asphalt.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Mars used to have a lot of volcanic activity and evidence of these times remains as pockmarks around the surface of the planet.
    — Shannon Stirone, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Dime-sized holes, pockmarks, and wood shavings: all signs that the invasive Asian longhorn beetle is burrowing its way through Clermont County.
    — Kimberly Armstrong, Cincinnati.com, 10 July 2017
  • One ball of ice shattered instantaneously, leaving behind a large pockmark on the roof.
    — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Debris from near the plane’s cockpit was peppered with the telltale pockmarks of antiaircraft shrapnel.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • The gulf’s peculiar history gave rise to a landscape riddled with domes, pockmarks, canyons, faults, and channels — all revealed in more detail than ever before by a new 1.4 billion-pixel map.
    — Betsy Mason, National Geographic, 26 May 2017
  • More recent aerial views of this place of once miraculous beauty show that it is now reduced to little more than pockmarks amongst the rubble, although some survivals suggest that there is hope for future restoration.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2019
  • The incident earned the pitcher a three-game suspension from the team and another pockmark in a career that has oscillated between spectacular and worrisome.
    — Mike Vorkunov, USA TODAY, 10 May 2017
  • Once exploded, somewhere between six hundred and two thousand feet feet below the surface, the bombs melted rock, creating vacuums that resulted in massive subsidence craters—pockmarks that look like they were made by asteroids.
    — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The improved resolution will also help scientists better understand many other deep-ocean processes, Picard explains, including landslides and pockmarks, craterlike features possibly caused by the escape of an unknown fluid or gas.
    — Terri Cook, Scientific American, 26 June 2017
  • Frost layers can trap air bubbles in the ice, which can work their way out as tiny pockmarks.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The wrappers are tender at the ends, but golden and crispy at the center and dappled with pockmarks from the sauté oil.
    — Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Researchers have found pockmarks on the face of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy.
    — Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Researchers have found pockmarks on the face of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy.
    — Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Nestled among the glitzy cement-and-glass skyscrapers in the capital, Beirut, some buildings still bear the pockmarks and jagged tears of bullets and shells.
    — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Similar pockmarks have been found in many other areas across the globe.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 5 June 2017
  • McCoy said the two noticed the old metal screen had some pockmarks and holes — evidence that over the years, people had used the screen for target practice.
    — Bill Leukhardt, courant.com, 30 June 2017
  • For a bobsled, one tiny pockmark can cause a sled to bounce, perpetuating the problem.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Helping make the flat drawings come to life is a thick coating of pockmark-like brushstrokes on everything from faces to asphalt.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Mars used to have a lot of volcanic activity and evidence of these times remains as pockmarks around the surface of the planet.
    — Shannon Stirone, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Dime-sized holes, pockmarks, and wood shavings: all signs that the invasive Asian longhorn beetle is burrowing its way through Clermont County.
    — Kimberly Armstrong, Cincinnati.com, 10 July 2017
  • One ball of ice shattered instantaneously, leaving behind a large pockmark on the roof.
    — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
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pockmark

2 of 2 verb
  • The 166 acres on which the dozens of buildings in the ABLA group once stood are now pockmarked by vast empty lots.
    — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 5 July 2017
  • Not far from the temple in Prey Chhor lies a rice field pockmarked with the remnants of mass graves.
    — Andrew Nachemson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The upper walls were pockmarked by car bomb fragments from bomb blasts.
    — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Countless craters, both large and small, pockmark the face of the moon, thanks to 4.5 billion years of bombardment from rocks of all sizes.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2014
  • Dead spots pockmarked the turf from where Leah, um, relieved herself.
    — Joe Jaszewski, idahostatesman, 17 Mar. 2017
  • The plaster walls were pockmarked with bullet holes and the windows boarded up.
    — Kyra Gurney, miamiherald, 7 June 2018
  • The craters which pockmark the moon are formed by asteroid impacts millions of years ago.
    — Fox News, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Glossy buildings sit next to ones pockmarked with bullet holes.
    — Time, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The Gallatin site is pockmarked with ponds that serve as storage for millions of tons of coal ash slurry.
    — Tatiana Schlossberg, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2017
  • The surface of the asteroid is pockmarked with craters believed to have been caused by a large smash the rock took in its formative years.
    — Fox News, 27 June 2018
  • Bullet holes pockmark the fencing and storage units that ring the field, and the first-base dugout where members of Congress ducked for cover.
    — Noah Weiland, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2018
  • The grainy, black-and-white images revealed a barren planet pockmarked with craters.
    — Mark Strauss, National Geographic, 28 Nov. 2016
  • The makeup has come off, their hair is now gray and balding, their six-pack has turned into a beer gut, and their face is pockmarked with pimples.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The Celtics, meanwhile, are surging through the playoffs with a roster pockmarked by injuries.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 5 May 2018
  • This dwarf planet should be pockmarked with craters up to 500 miles across, but scientists haven’t measured one even half that size.
    — Liz Kruesi, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2016
  • His once-handsome face was discolored and pockmarked by the poison.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • But while parts of the walls were pockmarked, the underground hospital was largely intact - the tunnels even more so.
    — Claudia Otto, CNN, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Steam rises from the hot springs and fumaroles that pockmark this dormant volcano, and two small glaciers provide dazzling views.
    — National Geographic, 29 May 2019
  • Dogtown Lake Named for the many prairie dog villages that once pockmarked nearby meadows, this body of water sits just outside Williams.
    — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 17 June 2019
  • Others had decamped to settlements along the Turkish border, where blue and white tents pockmark rocky hillsides and olive groves.
    — Mike Ives, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • According to Peter Schwartzstein at Slate, the blast blew out the museum’s giant windows, shot a streetlight through the front doors and pockmarked the intricate façade of the building.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 Feb. 2017
  • The stadium is pretty much full, too, which is kind of a relief, after both of today’s other games were pockmarked by empty seats.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Nearby blocks are pockmarked with vacant lots and crumbling structures.
    — Juan Perez Jr., chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2017
  • The long tendrils of gas and star debris that make up the pillars themselves look exquisite and haunting alongside the bright stars of the background, as well as those that pockmark the pillars themselves.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The road, a crucial artery for those who live and farm on the isolated expanse of land 375 miles and a world away from Chicago, is pockmarked by giant potholes and lined by stacks of uprooted tree limbs.
    — Patrick M. O'Connell, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • In Sderot, a Fox News reporter observed houses and cars pockmarked with shrapnel where some rockets had landed Wednesday night.
    — Samuel Chamberlain, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
  • Because these spot fires were pockmarked all over town, firefighters simply couldn’t handle them.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 14 June 2019
  • The magic window starts slowly as trout begin to feed on hatching insects, dimples pockmark the surface as if light rain is falling.
    — Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The stealth, combat, wall-running, and magic paths weren't pockmarked with hidden paths or alternate tactical items to use.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 1 June 2018
  • Artists paint hockey goalie helmets, too, but those helmets are flawed canvases, pockmarked by holes, partly covered by screws and straps.
    — Chico Harlan, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018

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