How to Use mottled in a Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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Sandra, too, is committed to the truth, the mottled kind that artists know.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
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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
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Greigii Greigii tulips are known for their mottled foliage.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2023
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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
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As the metaphorical curtain was drawn, the stage was set with four angled walls of mottled gray.
—Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 24 Aug. 2022
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The stones’ gray color and mottled clarity were seen as flaws.
—Abigail Covington, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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This plant has the most eye-catching leaves in the garden thanks to its mottled multi-color patterns.
—Southern Living, 1 July 2021
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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
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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
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Of the mottled varieties, both species tend to be lighter underneath.
—Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 14 Sep. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This tree has a beautiful white, mottled bark, similar to birch trees.
—Erin Hayes Burt, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To complement an orange pumpkin, consider adding dark green, gray-green, white, striped, mottled squashes, and gourds to the mix.
—Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2022
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This earthy, mottled wall finish with a chalky texture has embellished homes since the Roman empire.
—Sarah Karnasiewicz, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2023
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The melton coat sits over a flecked tweed suit—contrasting the matte outerwear with mottled textures beneath.
—Aleks Cvetkovic, Robb Report, 21 Jan. 2023
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Couples can toast to their future amid the fragrant citrus trees, pines, and rustling palms, all of which are framed by mottled stone balusters—a Gatsby-esque stage for speeches.
—Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2023
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