How to Use mottled in a Sentence

mottled

adjective

• On the day of the event, the sky above the Palais Garnier’s Beaux-Arts façade was a mottled, hazy apricot.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• Deep frostbite is the next stage, in which the skin can appear blue and mottled, and numb to pain and cold.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
• As the meat nears ready, Harout rips open a package of mottled lavash and slides out a flat piece of bread about 3 feet long.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• Sandra, too, is committed to the truth, the mottled kind that artists know.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
• The mottled surface of the mushrooms soaked up the sauce and added a different dimension of chew to the dish.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• Where the original was shiny and bright, this one is a mottled cartoon.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2024
• Greigii Greigii tulips are known for their mottled foliage.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2023
• Bake it in a buttered pan to a mottled bronze with a little burnishing at the edges.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 5 June 2024
• As the metaphorical curtain was drawn, the stage was set with four angled walls of mottled gray.
  — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 24 Aug. 2022
• Most of the painting, except for the King’s pensive face and hands, are detailed in an array of mottled reds and pinks.
  — Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• The stones’ gray color and mottled clarity were seen as flaws.
  — Abigail Covington, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• The surfaces, shaped by hand, are a rough-textured mottled white that takes on a grayish tone when seen from a distance.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 3 May 2023
• Ranging in color from a mottled green to a mottled brown, these cuties tend to lurk at the bottom of the water, where their backs blend in with the rocks and mud.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2023
• While my wife and I inspect the whale’s mottled flanks, our 2-year-old sits near the trees, dropping pebbles into his lap one at a time.
  — Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads, 25 Feb. 2022
• This plant has the most eye-catching leaves in the garden thanks to its mottled multi-color patterns.
  — Southern Living, 1 July 2021
• So does the black-and-yellow walking toad (Melanophryniscus stelzneri), which is black on its back and mottled bright red on its belly.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
• In the winter, their mottled brown feathers give way to snowy white plumage, which helps camouflage them against the powder.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
• Marvel The hue also pops up in the primary bath shower, which is sheathed in mottled pink quartzite slab.
  — Alyssa Bird, ELLE Decor, 7 Sep. 2023
• Of the mottled varieties, both species tend to be lighter underneath.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 14 Sep. 2023
• Pruning Don’t prune the plant after the bloom; instead, let the mottled, deep-green foliage die back on its own in midsummer.
  — Nadia Hassani, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2024
• Workers shuffle through that mottled brown carpet with bare feet — like kicking sand on the beach — to expose the harvest to some sun.
  — Mumbi Gitau, Fortune Europe, 27 Feb. 2024
• They’re seated behind a tabletop, a brushy plane of pale and mottled yellow that takes up almost half the picture.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• About 350 miles northwest of Montreal, amid a vast pine forest, is a deep mining pit with walls of mottled rock.
  — Jack Ewing Brendan George Ko For The New York Times, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2022
• This tree has a beautiful white, mottled bark, similar to birch trees.
  — Erin Hayes Burt, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
• These feisty birds are recognizable by their mottled feathers, long tails, long legs and short head crest — which is more brownish than the bright blue in the cartoon.
  — Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 3 Sep. 2020
• There was a mushroom one with long fringes that bounced trippily; there was a mottled sequin ribcage with a tulle exoskeleton.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Mar. 2022
• On one memorable dive, the Pisces subs were greeted by a Pacific sleeper shark—a thick-bodied deep-dweller with mottled skin and a buzz-saw mouth.
  — Susan Casey, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
• The birds are masters of camouflage, growing snow-white plumage in winter and mottled brown feathers in summer.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
• The fruit has a mottled look as your picture and usually turns brown in the dead spots with rotting brown colored interior.
  — oregonlive, 21 Aug. 2021
• Sheehan walked me through the tricks: adding caramel color; adding oats to the outside of bread; giving bread a heartier, richer, or mottled appearance.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024