How to Use stipple in a Sentence

stipple

verb

• Palm trees and cactuses stipple the town, and reddish buttes rise in the distance.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 15 June 2023
• These are the kind that stipple our sidewalks — nascent trace fossils, records of fleeting contact.
  — Jessica Leigh Hester, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The terrifying time was stippled with the ordinary and the joyous.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Martha Ulrich shivered in the harsh February cold, her bare legs stippled with goosebumps.
  — oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Forget the foils—Hairstory's Roxie Darling likes to stipple with an actual paintbrush.
  — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 17 Mar. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Kenturah Davis’ 2015 self-portrait was made using an ink stippling technique.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Palm trees and cactuses stipple the town, and reddish buttes rise in the distance.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 15 June 2023
• These are the kind that stipple our sidewalks — nascent trace fossils, records of fleeting contact.
  — Jessica Leigh Hester, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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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