How to Use pock in a Sentence
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The pustules had invaded the whole face, so that one pock touched the next….
—Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
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In the house where Mehsud died, blood colours the floor but bullet-holes pock only one wall.
—The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
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That wall under the a/c unit currently has many pock marks.
—Caitlin R. McGlade, Sun-Sentinel.com, 31 Aug. 2017
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The suspect is described as having curly dark hair in a ponytail, a large pointy nose and pock marks on the right side of his face.
—Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2018
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The door opposite the apartment was pock-marked with bullet holes.
—Bianca Padró Ocasio, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 June 2018
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A couple days to two weeks later, a red rash of round pocks erupts on the skin’s surface where the pain and itching occurred.
—Health.com, 1 May 2017
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Philip wore the handkerchiefs folded into squares and tucked into the breast pock of his suits.
—Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 18 Apr. 2021
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The move will increase annual revenue for teams at the expense of a slight aesthetic pock-mark.
—Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 15 May 2017
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Police searched the immediate area but did not locate the man, who is described as between 5-foot-7 and 6-foot, with a medium build and noticeable pock-marks on his face.
—Anna Marum, OregonLive.com, 12 Jan. 2018
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Sporting a bushy beard, a corncob pipe, and a face riddled with pocks and crags, Wake looks like a cross between Captain Birdseye and Trotsky and sounds like a cartoon pirate.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2019
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There's a large main pocket for books and notebooks, plus internal pockets accessories, along with a zippered outer pock for quick-grab items.
—Kylee McGuigan, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2022
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The field of Alzheimer’s research has been pock-marked with failures after failure of clinical trials—in part, researchers now believe, because the models weren’t telling them the full story.
—Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2020
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But don’t get carried away and string together too many loud, aggressive, irregular clucks and pocks that can drown out a turkey’s gobble.
—Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 20 Apr. 2020
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His time at the county has been tumultuous -- pock-marked by criminal convictions and non-prosecution agreements among top-level staff, and tragedy at the county jail, where eight inmates died in the span of a year.
—Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2021
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Leading the night’s awards categories was Post Malone, who earned the most nods with seven nominations, including artist of the year, collaboration of the year and favorite male artist – pop/pock.
—Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 24 Nov. 2019
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Oftentimes, eggplant in the supermarket is simply old — pock-marked, faded, shriveled, sad.
—Susan Russo, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
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One particular bummer is that the textures applied to human faces originally split the difference between realistic and exaggerated, particularly in pock-marking the cheeks and jawlines of those who live in the game's corporate-run dystopia.
—Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 4 June 2020
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The pustules had invaded the whole face, so that one pock touched the next….
—Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
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In the house where Mehsud died, blood colours the floor but bullet-holes pock only one wall.
—The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
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That wall under the a/c unit currently has many pock marks.
—Caitlin R. McGlade, Sun-Sentinel.com, 31 Aug. 2017
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The suspect is described as having curly dark hair in a ponytail, a large pointy nose and pock marks on the right side of his face.
—Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2018
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The door opposite the apartment was pock-marked with bullet holes.
—Bianca Padró Ocasio, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 June 2018
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A couple days to two weeks later, a red rash of round pocks erupts on the skin’s surface where the pain and itching occurred.
—Health.com, 1 May 2017
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Philip wore the handkerchiefs folded into squares and tucked into the breast pock of his suits.
—Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 18 Apr. 2021
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The move will increase annual revenue for teams at the expense of a slight aesthetic pock-mark.
—Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 15 May 2017
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Police searched the immediate area but did not locate the man, who is described as between 5-foot-7 and 6-foot, with a medium build and noticeable pock-marks on his face.
—Anna Marum, OregonLive.com, 12 Jan. 2018
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Sporting a bushy beard, a corncob pipe, and a face riddled with pocks and crags, Wake looks like a cross between Captain Birdseye and Trotsky and sounds like a cartoon pirate.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2019
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There's a large main pocket for books and notebooks, plus internal pockets accessories, along with a zippered outer pock for quick-grab items.
—Kylee McGuigan, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2022
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The field of Alzheimer’s research has been pock-marked with failures after failure of clinical trials—in part, researchers now believe, because the models weren’t telling them the full story.
—Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2020
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But don’t get carried away and string together too many loud, aggressive, irregular clucks and pocks that can drown out a turkey’s gobble.
—Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 20 Apr. 2020
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And the woods can be pocked with streams, ponds and swamps that freeze quickly.
—Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
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From the start, the new taxes were pocked with loopholes.
—New York Times, 30 Dec. 2019
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Packed snow covered the ground, pocked with hoof prints.
—Kate Brody, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
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There are blue mountains in the distance, and dark earth pocked like the moon.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2019
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The road from Quartzsite to the site of this year’s RTR was pocked with muffler-scraping craters.
—Penelope Green, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
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The far side is more varied and pocked with craters than the flatter near side.
—Matthew W. Chwastyk, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
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Two bullet holes pocked the driver's side door, two more on the rear trunk area and one in the front windshield.
—Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2017
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No one was injured, but the school’s front door has been pocked by bullet holes.
—Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
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Misurata, nestled on Libya’s coast 116 miles east of Tripoli, is pocked with the scars of drones.
—Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2019
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What starts in the clouds as snow can fall as sleet, rain, freezing rain, or even graupel (snowflakes pocked with rime ice).
—Geoff Fox, Slate Magazine, 3 Jan. 2018
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A gold Chevrolet Cavalier parked in front of the house was pocked with bullet holes.
—Julie Shaw, Philly.com, 20 May 2017
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For years, lunar scientists have been intrigued by pits and holes that pock the surface of the moon.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2017
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The pavement is pocked with softball-sized divots that could trip up a walker or a stroller wheel.
—Sammy Caiola, sacbee.com, 12 June 2017
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Outside, potholes pocked the parking lot and deep splits formed in warped sidewalks.
—Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 13 Apr. 2023
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In the dining room that also opens from the family room, more bullet holes pocked the wall and a hall leading away to the center of the house.
—Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 22 May 2018
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After years of battering, the garage door looks as pocked as the lunar surface.
—Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
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From there, pocked doors open up to a mahogany-paneled library with a gas-log fireplace.
—Darla Guillen Gilthorpe, Houston Chronicle, 5 June 2019
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Today, a chain-link fence wraps around the historic landmark pocked with peeling paint.
—Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 22 Feb. 2024
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The vessel was a crude metal sphere pocked with tiny quartz windows, akin to finger holes in a bowling ball.
—Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
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Scientists estimate ages on the Moon and the rocky planets from the number of craters that pock their surfaces.
—Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 19 Nov. 2020
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Swaths of West Baltimore, pocked with vacant homes, burned.
—Juliet Linderman, The Seattle Times, 5 June 2017
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Even an uneventful trip would be slow: The war had reduced roads to pocked, rutted gravel, many of them laced with land mines.
—Sharon Guynup, National Geographic, 5 Oct. 2017
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Our conversation, which took place over four days, was pocked with hours of silence.
—Gemma Sieff, Harper's Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
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From the Ivorian capital of Abidjan, the village of Bonon is a five-hour drive along two-lane roads pocked with pond-sized potholes.
—Washington Post, 5 June 2019
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They are funnel-shaped, resembling a shower head, with the flat surface pocked with a dozen holes large enough to stick a finger in.
—Ben Raines | Braines@al.com, AL.com, 30 Aug. 2017
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Chris lived in a two-bedroom apartment, the carpet pocked with cigarette burns.
—Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2017
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Ruts pocked the permafrost gravel road, scars from dark brutal winters.
—Andrew W. Lehren, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
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Errol’s rolling links, which once had lush greens and fairways, are now dry and brown and pocked by bull thistles and other prickly weeds.
—Stephen Hudak, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 Apr. 2018
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At the 115-year-old Niles Hotel — where ancient bullet holes pock the tin ceiling by the downstairs saloon — getting the creeps is part of the appeal.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
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Changing entrenched habits tends to be a long and arduous process, a path pocked with potholes and detours.
—Ana Veciana-Suarez, miamiherald, 8 Jan. 2018
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