How to Use pockmark in a Sentence

pockmark

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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