How to Use stipple in a Sentence
stipple
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Palm trees and cactuses stipple the town, and reddish buttes rise in the distance.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 15 June 2023
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These are the kind that stipple our sidewalks — nascent trace fossils, records of fleeting contact.
—Jessica Leigh Hester, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
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As opposed to swirling, stippling will blend and deposit product at the same time for a second-skin effect.
—Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 17 May 2017
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Using a damp sponge, Ciucci suggests tapping into cream highlighter and stippling it on the high points of the face.
—Tiffany Dodson, SELF, 11 Oct. 2018
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The sedan’s rear driver’s door was stippled with multiple bullet holes, and both windows on that side were shot out.
—Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com, 14 Sep. 2019
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The terrifying time was stippled with the ordinary and the joyous.
—BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
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The beans on Sando’s site look like gems in a jewelry case: crimson, violet, black, and gold; stippled, striped, and swirled.
—Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
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Compare stippling the pages with water spots, unable to put your arms down, with balancing an ashtray on the rim of the tub, unable to put one arm down.
—Garnett Kilberg Cohen, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2019
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Kardashian mixed the two products together on the back of her hand with a Kabuki brush and then quickly stippled it all over her face.
—Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 16 Aug. 2019
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Martha Ulrich shivered in the harsh February cold, her bare legs stippled with goosebumps.
—oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2020
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The portrait of Grace is in the guise of Rudolph Valentino, sideburns persuasively stippled and breasts bound invisibly with gauze cloth.
—Arthur Lubow, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
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Quick, stippled brush marks conjure a leafy tree, while loose strokes of color cut a roadway through the grasses to what appears to be an Indian burial mound on the horizon.
—Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 30 June 2018
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Either use a contour palette or a matte concealer two shades lighter than your skin tone, and then begin applying it with a sponge or stippling brush to the high points of your face.
—Brooke Shunatona, Cosmopolitan, 20 Feb. 2018
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The researchers’ base shows up as a small huddle of buildings; surrounding it, hundreds of Maya structures stipple the ground in every direction.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2019
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Do: Apply a light layer of oil-free moisturizer and then apply a light layer of self-tan using a flat head stippling makeup brush such as the T1 Tontour Brush.
—Nicole Saunders, Billboard, 26 July 2017
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The lemons and limes come stippled with a natural texture, green leaves and all, while the apricot, full of fruit filling, has an incredibly organic texture.
—Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2017
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Forget the foils—Hairstory's Roxie Darling likes to stipple with an actual paintbrush.
—Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 17 Mar. 2017
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Sephora recommends that the product is first warmed in the fingers before being tapped into place on the face, while Nars advises adding a stippling brush to blend it into wrinkles, scars, or large pores.
—Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 13 June 2023
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On the album, Mr. Evans and Mr. Smythe play a relatively faithful rendition of the classic tune’s stippled, rag-like melody, then disassemble and erupt it over the course of five subsequent tracks.
—Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 2 July 2018
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Kenturah Davis’ 2015 self-portrait was made using an ink stippling technique.
—Susan Dunne, courant.com, 22 Oct. 2019
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Construction cranes once again stipple the Dublin skyline, and work has resumed on buildings left unfinished during the recession.
—Jennifer Duggan / Dublin, Time, 13 July 2017
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Though your plant may be sheltered from pests indoors, orchids can be infested by scale (insects appear to be circular bumps on stems), mites (tiny spider-like pests that cause stippling on leaves), or mealybugs (white, fluffy insects).
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 16 June 2023
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Mills, who performed the autopsy, said test firing results from 6 inches most closely resembled the gunpowder stippling pattern on Chase Fleischauer’s head, but the lack of soot found in the wound more closely resembled the test from 9 inches.
—Mike Longaecker, Twin Cities, 13 June 2019
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And so on a chilly February weeknight, Bedrick began by showing examples of low-cost products that can help with makeup basics, like a brow tint pen, eyeliner pot, contour palette, stipple sponge, and liquid black eyeliner.
—Alaina Demopoulos, Allure, 26 Apr. 2022
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The Sheriff's Office crime lab performed tests with Gasser's .40-caliber pistol to determine the maximum distance gun powder would travel from the gun, embedding into clothing or creating stippling on skin.
—Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 25 Jan. 2018
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Palm trees and cactuses stipple the town, and reddish buttes rise in the distance.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 15 June 2023
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These are the kind that stipple our sidewalks — nascent trace fossils, records of fleeting contact.
—Jessica Leigh Hester, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
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As opposed to swirling, stippling will blend and deposit product at the same time for a second-skin effect.
—Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 17 May 2017
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Using a damp sponge, Ciucci suggests tapping into cream highlighter and stippling it on the high points of the face.
—Tiffany Dodson, SELF, 11 Oct. 2018
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The sedan’s rear driver’s door was stippled with multiple bullet holes, and both windows on that side were shot out.
—Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com, 14 Sep. 2019
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