How To Use Dotted In A Sentence

  • There were a few cows dotted around in the field.
  • A few farms were dotted about in the valley.
  • _ -- The dotted lines in Fig. 60 represent isacoustic lines -- that is, lines which pass through all places where the percentage of observers who recorded their perception of the sound is the same. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
  • It's surrounded by mountains lush with greenery, bordered with wildflowers and dotted with water lilies.
  • All at once the apparent walls of the room turned from a gold color to a black dotted with stars, most like a midnight sky.
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  • Colourful wild flowers sprung up by the roadside, purple violets and white daisies dotted among the grass.
  • From the tip of the headland you are treated to a view of more unblemished promontories dotted along the coast.
  • We preferred to forage on grassy plains dotted with copses of trees because they offered protection from predators, which we could easily spot as they crept up on us in the short grass.
  • Fold the paper along the dotted line.
  • The risottos change daily, and the one I sampled was well made and tastefully dotted with bits of fresh zucchini and shrimp.
  • Even the ostrich squawk as they make their way across the sandvelt to open marshlands and savannahs dotted with acacia, baobab trees and wild sage bushes.
  • Here we walked through a large lawn of uncut grasses dotted with early-summer bulbs and flowers following a winding, mowed path leading into shrubbery and woodland.
  • Chiefdoms are marked by a motley of villages dotted around them.
  • Monarda punctata, L. Dotted monarda; horsemint; origanum. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • Here, smaller producers are dotted along the river as it flows east to join the Seine. The Sun
  • It is composed of the following stitches: -- Point d'Alençon, point de tulle, English rosettes, Sorrento bars, d'Alençon bars, dotted Venise bars, and the fancy stitch point d'Anvers, which is not a true point lace stitch, but which is much employed in modern point. Beeton's Book of Needlework
  • Here are some things to consider before you sign on the dotted line :? Times, Sunday Times
  • Cross the road for an enormous show of Liverpool-born Tony Cragg's hefty colored sculptures, some of which are dotted about the glorious permanent architectural "landform" earthwork by Charles Jencks in front of the building. An Explosion of Visual Arts
  • They are separated by panels of chain fencing and the space between dotted with waste bins and park benches.
  • As shown in Figure 10, a dotted line with a closed, unfilled arrow means realization (or implementation); as we saw in Figure 4, a solid arrow line with a closed, unfilled arrow means inheritance.
  • The section of the island inhabited by the women is finely manicured and dotted with wooden houses on stilts.
  • Wainwright’s concert at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday (and also last night) was not merely a show, but a cultural event that drew a sold-out crowd dotted with celebrities and an audience that held Wainwright in rapturous esteem. Katie Holmes “So You Think You Can Dance” VIDEO (Judy Garland “Get Happy” Tribute)
  • It is a land of undulating hills and hollows, dips and drumlins, rivers, inlets, estuaries and lakes, dotted with homes and barns.
  • The sixteenth variation - a famous tour-de-force - is a ‘French overture’ - that is, a grand introduction of slow dotted rhythms, followed by a fugal allegro.
  • The cheddar mash had no overtly cheesy taste but was rich and creamy and the dish was served with a thick onion gravy, dotted with baby onions.
  • The train had the odd little ostrich feather dotted around. Times, Sunday Times
  • They are found in villages dotted about a landscape that is agreeable to tour. Times, Sunday Times
  • Olive and pine trees dotted the brown fields. Smithsonian Mag
  • Tom is still performing, taking time each day to keep up with his dotted quavers and four beat notes.
  • A Championship course, 18 holes, par 72, 6.066 mètres (Men)/5.235 mètres (Women) This course, that offers wide Fairways dotted with olive trees and sand trapes within a driving range, is indeed a challenge for players of all handicaps. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • This choice allowed us to travel comfortably with the wind at our backs while viewing the constant vista of mountains and valleys, the ice-speckled Atlantic Ocean in the distance dotted with floes of drift ice from Quebec and Labrador.
  • On the lowest lawn twin rows of classical statues eyed each other across a sward dotted with croquet-hoops. ULTIMATE PRIZES
  • The top lawn is dotted with decorative pavilions where they can eat supper and admire the view. Times, Sunday Times
  • Compare these "pot-hooks and trammels," dotted and double-dotted, with Galin's symbol of silence, the cipher (0)! Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878
  • The set successfully employs many native elements including a pentatonic scale, dotted rhythms prominent in traditional Korean music and references to folk songs.
  • Gone was the safe, familiar home, set amidst a tumble of rolling, well-tilled fields dotted with farm buildings, and grassy meads redolent with the scent of wildflowers.
  • Trees, rocks and soil had all been uprooted, and flickering tongues of flame dotted the landscape.
  • They are found in villages dotted about a landscape that is agreeable to tour. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was a drawing of the black night sky, dotted with tiny yellow stars.
  • Green and purple dotted the water, leaves bobbing like butterfly wings.
  • This is a region dotted with Chotts, lakes and salt marshes that expand and subtract with the seasons, attracting vast flights of birds as well as herds.
  • Spring smiling upon the landscape renewed the foliage with life and dotted the prairies with many-hued flowers.
  • At first quick glance, the image appears to present a pretty nondescript, rusty-colored flatland dotted with rocks.
  • Holding his religious mirror up to his face, he carefully dotted paint on his own. Times, Sunday Times
  • The map of Europe is dotted with a constellation of spa towns.
  • On the radar screen they look like open graves dotted across the desert. Times, Sunday Times
  • The IP address in dotted decimal notation or the domain name of the ultimate destination. Ping
  • Pro-Russian billboards -- "Russia and Abkhazia: together for prosperity" -- dotted the streets of Sukhumi, which is nestled among vineyards and orchards on the Black Sea coast. News on www.kyivpost.com
  • Lebanon's 150-kilometer coastline is dotted with beautiful beaches, but off the coast of Saida, there are no swimmers, due to a giant heap of stinking garbage. Mountain of Trash Blights Historic Lebanese City of Saida
  • Colorful flowers are dotted with spring open competition.
  • The cleric's unshaven face is dotted with stubble, for he has been attending at the royal bedside for many hours. 1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
  • All this was stamped on a background of indigo blue dotted with white as the stars winked at us from far away.
  • Butter is the dominant flavor of these crisp, delicate cookies dotted with tiny raisins which look like chocolate chips.
  • On both sides stretched green fields dotted with groves of palm trees and marsh grass. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
  • The carpet was probably once an off white color, but now it was gray and dotted with mysterious brown spots.
  • 'Twas an open space we had to cross, dotted with gorsebushes; and the enemy's regiments, plain to see, drawn up in battalia on the slope above, which here was gentler than to the south and west. The Splendid Spur
  • The actual truth lies midway between the "evenness" of Evelyn and the "great hills" of Pepys, and to the man of Wilts that word "Plain" will ever summon up a vision of rolling downs, a short, crisp, elastic turf dotted with flocks, and broken here and there by some crested earthwork or barrow, which rears itself from the undulating Down, and breaks the skyline with its sharp outline. Stonehenge Today and Yesterday
  • Drained by the Nushagak and other large rivers that flow into Bristol Bay, the lowland is dotted with morainal and thaw lakes. Bering Tundra (Southern) Province (Bailey)
  • The dotted lines in Fig. 2 show the deficiency in alimentiveness, executiveness and combativeness. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony
  • Sales targets are indicated on the graph by a vertical dotted line.
  • The long axis of the bar is vertical and the dotted lines indicate our line of sight to the Galactic Centre.
  • The wealth of information is stored on computers dotted about the car. Times, Sunday Times
  • Aspens and cottonwoods turn from green to gold, meadows are dotted with milkweed pods spilling their silvery strands, and a peaceful splendor invites you to relax.
  • They have a thick, leathery peel dotted with areolas (colored rings, generally at the base of spines in cacti) loaded with irritating glochids. Nopales, tunas and pitayas
  • Over the bridge, Eton seemed to offer even more eating establishments than Windsor, dotted between an eclectic mix of shops, galleries and boutiques.
  • It was thirty pages long, column after column of kanji characters arranged vertically on the pages, with never a strikeover or erasure, now and then a crude stick-figure drawing with arrows or dotted lines signifying this or that mysterious pathology. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
  • We never tired of the stunning view, and at night the sky was full of stars, the lights twinkled from houses dotted among the trees and olive groves and the only sound was the strange hoot of the little Scops owls.
  • The population is dominated by farmers, and the skyline is dotted with silos.
  • If tourists visit the garden in summer, they will be astonished by the pleasing green and red of thickly dotted lotuses.
  • Until then heart patients used to be dotted around general wards. Times, Sunday Times
  • The LDAP server IP address in dotted decimal notation. Specifying an LDAP Server for Certificate Revocation Lists
  • So in 1998 he filled out the requisite triplicates, signed on the mandatory dotted lines and did whatever else he thought necessary to bring in a foreign domestic to tend to her.
  • Nonetheless, it took several weeks, and no doubt a bigger than average wad of petrodollars, to convince him to finally sign on the dotted line.
  • His shirt was soft silk, set off with a blue - and - white polka - dotted bow tie.
  • The vista beyond was dotted with leafless trees and throngs of firs and pine.
  • On a fine night the gardens are magical, dotted with folding chairs, tartan rugs and carefully chosen food that won't cause unwanted sound later.
  • The route soon turns into hairpin bends where the area is dotted with tea estates.
  • I had my base camp here" — a red square — "and I was tracking this humpback lacertilian through here" — dotted yellow meanders. Perseus Spur
  • Motorists found themselves searching for spaces at spots dotted around the centre.
  • The cheddar mash had no overtly cheesy taste but was rich and creamy and the dish was served with a thick onion gravy, dotted with baby onions.
  • Her eyes found him, and their gazes locked for a moment, brilliant blue meeting, oddly, yellow dotted in red-orange.
  • On its own, this sequel is simply a cat-and-mouse procedural, dotted with the occasional smackdown and pyrotechnics display.
  • The film gives us a sense of symmetry when, at the end, we see that upstairs hallway dotted with picture hooks - all but one of the photographs are gone.
  • Running down each side of the valley are mountain peaks dotted with dormant volcanoes.
  • This music was full of accidentals, thirty-second notes, dotted whole, half, quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes, slurs, ties and key changes.
  • On the lowest lawn twin rows of classical statues eyed each other across a sward dotted with croquet-hoops. ULTIMATE PRIZES
  • They are found in villages dotted about a landscape that is agreeable to tour. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is not bedotted with artists 'sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics. Essays of Travel
  • The dotted line in each diagram separates the superior courts from the inferior courts.
  • They are in suburban Britain, dotted across a grey island nation that from here seems remote and eccentric.
  • It seems to have been attached with double-sided sticky tape (the back dotted with suspicious looking white squares).
  • In a beautiful and affecting way, Shostakovich evokes the sounds of the Moonlight Sonata, the triplet arpeggios and the dotted rhythm of the main theme, without really quoting it.
  • In the distance, live oaks dotted the landscape, as shaggy and dark and hunched as buffalo.
  • Featuring delicate daubs of paint that created elegant dotted lines, the geometrical discipline of these lines imposed themselves on near evanescent landscapes.
  • The girl had a milky white complexion, dotted with light freckles that matched her hair.
  • From the tip of the headland you are treated to a view of more unblemished promontories dotted along the coast.
  • With infinite timidity he turned his head and encountered a gaze so soft, so hallowed, that it disconcerted him, and he dropped a "drumstick" of fried chicken, well dotted with ants, from his plate. Ramsey Milholland
  • It was a summer afternoon. The clear blue sky was dotted with fluttering larks.
  • Tomas pointed out the promontory forts that are dotted around the area.
  • Shining dragon eggs dotted the valley; all tinted with hues of gold, argent, azure, and green.
  • So my right sock is usually a standard white ankle sock, and the left is rainbow-striped or polka-dotted or argyle. Left Neglected
  • It is a great place, very sad and wild, dotted with the dwellings of prehistoric man, strange monoliths, huts and graves.
  • A few dwarf birches unfold their leaves amid the rocks; a few sub-arctic willows hang out their catkins beside the swampy runnels; the golden potentilla opens its bright flowers on slopes where the evergreen _Empetrum nigrum_ slowly ripens its glossy crow-berries; and from where the sea-spray dashes at full tide along the beach, to where the snow gleams at midsummer on the mountain-summits, the thin short sward is dotted by the minute cruciform stars of the scurvy-grass, and the crimson blossoms of the sea-pink. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
  • Once you sign on the dotted line you are committed to that property.
  • She looked around the room slowly, her eyes taking in everything from the expensive paintings and family heirlooms dotted around the room, to the Oriental rug.
  • When a user types an address, such as telegraph.co.uk, the request is first sent to a DNS server which translates the human-readable address into a computer-readable one known as a "dotted quad". Turkish hacker group diverts users away from high-profile websites
  • A dozen ivory combs, some still adhering to the backs of skulls, were decorated with patterns of double-dotted circles, a motif known on ivory combs from the Indus Valley civilization. Arabian Hoard
  • At Sabi, for example, 25 kilometers southeast of Moscow, fishermen cast lines from docks along the wooded shore, which are dotted with whimsical sculptures made of birchwood. Escape From Moscow:
  • It is more important than ever these days to check the terms and conditions on new cards before signing on the dotted line.
  • His tousled auburn hair almost hid his eyes, and the freckles dotted his face like the stars in the galaxy.
  • I near shrieked as he fell to the floor, a perfect, coin shaped hole, dotted between his eyebrows.
  • Gas stations dotted the landscape.
  • Unless you count the gourmet horse burgers sold from the quaintly grubby vans dotted near the stadium. The Sun
  • Until then heart patients used to be dotted around general wards. Times, Sunday Times
  • Low rounded mountains overlooked green valleys dotted with neat white dwellings. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
  • When we arrive at the office each morning we have to sign on the dotted line.
  • One, a leggy brunette in a polka dotted skirt, even winked.
  • Old relics dotted the entrance beyond; knots of yarn and wool rippled, brightly-colored etchings which reflected dully in the sepulchral gloom.
  • The sky was dotted with stars.
  • Dartmoor is all about green plains dotted with yellow gorse and ferns. The Sun
  • Just north of the Cape of Good Hope, a stiff southeaster rips over the summit of Table Mountain, blowing tendrils of fog toward Cape Town's sunbather-dotted beaches, 3,000 feet below.
  • Every year the fields and banks near Down House are dotted with cowslips and primroses, all members of the genus Primula.
  • But most of the shutters on the numerous holiday apartments dotted around the village remain firmly closed. The Sun
  • The fairy twin brother of the devil one went back to England and took pills after festers caused by AIDS have dotted all over him, leaving his late life mate agonise alone.
  • a work dotted with plagiarized phrases
  • But the main tourist pull of this cosmopolitan town is the surfing beaches dotted around the area. The Sun
  • The quickest way to do this is to rub out dotted lines on a map.
  • And in front of that, the stage is dotted with footlights for added effect. Standing Out Among the Wilde Scenery
  • The tonsils and back of the throat may be covered with a whitish coating, or appear red, swollen, and dotted with whitish or yellowish specks of pus.
  • Striking art adorns the walls and tropical plants are dotted here and there. Times, Sunday Times
  • Dotted across the ponds lotus flowers and water lilies are coming into bloom.
  • Plaques and stones dotted along pavements and hidden in backstreets commemorate those who died, and those family lines that were ended by the bomb.
  • The forest thinned as branches parted; a few hamlets dotted grassy slopes below and thickly-wooded hills reared above.
  • The bustling downtown area of Chicago is dotted with massive new office developments.
  • The three dotted lines have different elevations and denote differences in relative organ size associated with changes in life style.
  • The only other human contact we have is with the settlements dotted along the banks of the mighty river. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even the ostrich squawk as they make their way across the sandvelt to open marshlands and savannahs dotted with acacia, baobab trees and wild sage bushes.
  • Holding his religious mirror up to his face, he carefully dotted paint on his own. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sighing, she dug her feet in and began pushing again, struggling to pass over all the grass while cutting around the ant piles that dotted the yard.
  • The cover shows a man in a white suit with a ridiculous polka-dotted tie, even more absurd spotted socks, and clownish white and black shoes.
  • The six cameras dotted around the court picked up her pinched and weary face as the Lord Advocate began questioning her.
  • The pond is dotted with lotus flowers, one of the symbols of enlightenment in Buddhism.
  • There are also 10 disabled fishing bays, as well as a number of picnic tables dotted about the scenic area.
  • This young actress plans to be choosy about the director, her co-stars and the script before she signs the dotted line.
  • On leaving Cognac, I drive through swathes of Ugni Blanc vines, dotted with red-roofed farmhouses and villages of pale local stone, bathed in the intense light for which the Charente is famed. A Slow Path to Perfection
  • A page break is represented as a dotted line on screen.
  • Dotted with green islets and set in a spectacular lunar landscape, Lake Myvatn is notable for its luxuriant vegetation and for providing a home for 45 nesting bird species.
  • The odd twisted tree and disarranged bush all dotted the landscape that could be seen.
  • Billet moulding, a series of little rolls like a dotted line, and chevron, or zigzag moulding were widely used.
  • It describes a snowy landscape dotted with figures, snowsuited schoolboys scattered around a bus. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • At first glance, townspeople would notice 38 signs dotted around the town advertising the zone, if approval comes from the district council.
  • As you make your way west of Funchal and into the countryside, the landscape changes and the area is dotted with houses that cling to the side of hills.
  • Thirty scores dotted the game, almost matching a modest foul count of 34.
  • It is a small yellow clover that is dotted all over a bushy plant. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wicker chairs dotted the garden and in the centre was its famed swimming pool. Times, Sunday Times
  • Dotted with scrubland and lone trees dangling on plateaus, hillside roads curled around the ascending stretch of hills.
  • We have offices dotted about/all over the region.
  • Her himation is pulled up over her head, and covers much of her peplos, which is decorated with a dotted lozenge.
  • The top lawn is dotted with decorative pavilions where they can eat supper and admire the view. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hence it is brought to one of 60 illicit processing laboratories dotted around the Khyber Pass.
  • As a certain person once said to me after I pointed out to him that our pronounciation of the undotted daleth is plainly incorrect [as explained above]: 'Do you imagine that the Hidushe HaRim [a great Tora sage of the last century] did not read Shema properly?' Esser Agaroth
  • Much of its activity is centred around the riva - the promenade - filled with a jostle of yachts, powerboats and hydrofoils that can ferry you to tiny ports along a coastline dotted with unspoilt beaches and 1,185 islands.
  • Just sign on the dotted line and the car is yours.
  • Tiny freckles dotted her upper cheeks and her nose.
  • Pool the Scott money with other superwealthy families who used to own a company and start what is known as a multifamily office, a boutique investment house, one of many now dotted around West London. CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2010
  • They arc shown as a dotted arrow. 9.
  • Dotted with lush lawns planted with palms, fig trees and cacti it was immaculately maintained. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
  • Here's an article on marquisette and grenadine that might interest you. I remember my grandmother having the dotted marquisette curtains.
  • There is a rose garden dotted with pink, red and yellow roses, as well as an outcrop of red sandstone which enjoys a commanding view.
  • It came with a wonderful rice pilaf, dotted with raisins, plump cranberries, nuts, seeds and thinly sliced almonds.
  • It is a land of undulating hills and hollows, dips and drumlins, rivers, inlets, estuaries and lakes, dotted with homes and barns.
  • It is a land of undulating hills and hollows, dips and drumlins, rivers, inlets, estuaries and lakes, dotted with homes and barns.
  • On the radar screen they look like open graves dotted across the desert. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unlike the previous years when the city's skyline used to be dotted with huge cut-outs of leaders, walls pasted with bills and streets littered with notices of various parties, they look barren still.
  • The dotted marcato rhythms of the presto finale are sizzlingly dispatched. Times, Sunday Times
  • A bolero jacket decomposed at the edges into layers of peach gauze, dotted with lace flower appliques and fur patches.
  • I got electic mixer and who doesn't have a polka-dotted mixer! World's Worst Pictionary Players
  • Its araucaria pines, villages dotted with conical-roofed ‘fare’ ceremonial houses and balmy waters are the stuff of postcards.
  • On this map, demarcations between regions are shown with dotted lines.
  • It was a summer afternoon. The clear blue sky was dotted with fluttering larks.
  • There were photographs in gilt frames dotted about the walls. AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
  • Chicken tikka, lamb tikka, tandoori chicken, prawns and mushrooms were dotted around a thick curry sauce that also featured fresh fried garlic, onions, green peppers and medium spices.
  • If it should stop playing through the loudspeakers dotted around the set, another feed kicks in. Times, Sunday Times
  • A man, in half-bared arms dotted about the wrists with remnants of what they call gurry-sores, stood at the water's edge, waiting to lend a hand. Sweetapple Cove
  • The ground surface is a crumbly screed dotted with spinifex and occasional leopardwood and lancewood trees.
  • As well as the usual procession of side quests and oddities dotted around Sky Loft, its floating island world above the clouds and the three themed lands beneath, you'll frequently need to dowse, pointing the Wii-remote at the screen to divine the location of lost people and items. This week's new games
  • But the main tourist pull of this cosmopolitan town is the surfing beaches dotted around the area. The Sun
  • Holding his religious mirror up to his face, he carefully dotted paint on his own. Times, Sunday Times
  • The shattered remnants of other vessels dotted the walls and floor of the tunnel, but she figured the gunrunners had scavenged the majority of the wreckage.
  • These steeples are symbolic representations of the stone monoliths that once dotted the landscape of Europe.
  • Sign your name on the dotted line.
  • In Roman times the Chilterns in particular were dotted with well-appointed villas and farms reflecting the agricultural wealth of the area.
  • That pretty dotted, ungored Swiss skirt will make dainty, ruffled sash curtains for bedroom windows. Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans"
  • Footpaths are shown on the map as dotted red lines.
  • We felt that we had to do the best for him, arranged a remortgage and signed on the dotted line, pragmatism prevailing over ideology. Times, Sunday Times
  • The trenches were blown to irrecognizable pits dotted with dead. History of the World War, Vol. 3
  • The tents which are dotted about, range from top mountaineering quality to tatty improvised structures made of bamboo and straw.
  • The child could accurately be described as cute: her large, smiling green eyes dotted with hazel specks and golden hair that flew astray as she danced in the sunlight.
  • The manicured lawns, which are dotted with a variety of flowerbeds and mature trees, are bounded by stud railings.
  • Endless stretches of water, gleaming rivers and gliding boats framed within the vibrant shades of green paddy fields and blue skies dotted with billowy white clouds.

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