How To Use Mottled In A Sentence

But it Hoolock Wu Wen-mei first half of yellow, white and the lower body more and more vertical profile, wing spot and more white, more mottled waist and tail-heavy.
A mottled seal mother flops onto her fat belly, (What in the name...? THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Fiery red blossoms float amongst olive green leaves that are heavily mottled with chocolate and maroon.
He wore a mottled camouflage jacket and a lightweight stetson and carried an automatic rifle.
As he got close to the woman, he could see only her face and her hair, and they were mottled with mud.

The female is a mottled brown. Times, Sunday Times
At least two other moths, the mottled umber moth (Erannis. defoliaria), and the March moth (Alsophila aescularia) have wingless females.
Of the nashi grown in New Zealand, 95 percent are Hosui, although smooth-skinned, greenish-yellow Nijisseiki and the mottled Kosui also make excellent eating.
The results include inky splodges of paint like sea spray and mottled fields of blue. This week's new exhibitions
The mottled look of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation is the result of differences in temperature and density.
Symptoms of the severe stage include oliguria (decreased urine output), hypoxemia (low partial pressure of oxygen in the blood), low platelet count, trouble breathing, areas of mottled skin or a sudden change in mental state or condition. EHow - Health How To's
_B.p. aucubifolia_ is the Double Daisy, having a beautifully variegated foliage, mottled with golden-yellow in the way of the aucuba. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
Its surface was mottled with great ugly spots, leprous with the scaly markings called faculae and granulations. Starchild Omnibus
On looking at the Sun, I was at once struck with the apparent resolvability of its mottled appearance. James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
There are two dining rooms, both tightly packed, both with mottled greyish-green walls and bizarrely disposed lumps of varnished pine.
Various mineral localities occur throughout the county, of which some of the most important occur on the shore at Portsoy, as for example the gabbro masses in Portsoy Bay with enstatite, hypersthene and labradorite, the graphic granite with microcline, muscovite and tourmaline at East Head, the chiastolite-schist west of the marble quarry, the mottled serpentine with strings of chrysotile. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
They are mottled brown with cinnamon underwings that are distinctive in flight.
Across one cheek was a scrape; tiny smears of dried blood speckled her mottled skin below her eye.
Each stem carries up to 10 nodding sulphur coloured flared bell shaped flowers, growing from a base of deep green foliage that has attractive mottled markings.
The fungus attacks all major varieties of bananas and plantains, turning the leaves a mottled yellow, brown and black, hindering photosynthesis.
A few have mottled top layers with splashes of incongruous colors that seem to have come together with the randomness of drips of paint on a drop cloth.
His complexion was mottled red and white, as if somebody had applied suction cups to it, and he was staring stonily, blindly straight ahead. NO BODY
His face was mottled red and white with embarrassment.
Billy looked again at the large wings of the butterfly, veined and mottled from dark green to black and with a sheen in the sunlight
Juveniles have a dark crown with no plumes or ruff, and a mottled neck.
Through the early hours of the day the mottled, pearly clouds keep their shape, with delicious open spaces of tempered blue between; by and by the sky's tender fleece is half shadowed, toward noon it melts into loose mists. An Island Garden
Two years after the peel, her skin looked like an elderly woman's, mottled with brown and red blotches.
Females and males in non-breeding plumage are duller than breeding males, their backs mottled gray-brown rather than rufous.
We're silently praying for the moment we can plead sunburn and hide all out mottled bits under the outsize bullfight T-shirt.
It was the mysterious, evil forest, a charnel house of silence, wherein naught moved save strange tiny birds -- the strangeness of them making the mystery more profound, for they flitted on noiseless wings, emitting neither song nor chirp, and they were mottled with morbid colours, having all the seeming of orchids, flying blossoms of sickness and decay. Chapter 25
Albatross, cape pigeons, diving petrels, monymawks, mottled petrels, and sooty shearwaters all took their turns skimming our bow wave for fish.
He caught a glimpse of himself in the reflection of the beer-cooler glass, a stocky figure in all black, watch cap low over the ears, face mottled, the subgun cradled in his hands, body armor, a SIG P226 in a mid-thigh tac holster, black Danner assault boots bloused, mags in pouches everywhere. Dead Zero
One boy is tanned and shiny from the water, but most of the rest have gangly, pale, mottled bodies; they are wearing baggy underwear or ill-fitting hand-me-downs.
The bald skin is mottled with age spots, which have gone crusty.
His cheeks were sunken and the skin across the bridge of his nose was taught and mottled after days of pain. PROSECUTOR
The phosphorus-tungsten alloy cast iron would generate some white structure and mottled structure after standing its melt in high temperature.
When the velamen is too dry, its color is silvery or white while a watered velamen will appear green or slightly mottled. EzineArticles
Beneath the cloudy sky, the green and blue shade cast by the giant trees fell in a mottled pattern on the forest floor.
The second and central panel is an abstract passage; here, the tension between flat surface and represented curvature is broken by the mottled dark colouring, to yield a paradoxical depth.
The universe, once clean and consistent, was becoming a mottled, furrowed, anisotropic mess due to the opposing compressional and tensile stresses induced by gravitationally attractive and repulsive forces.
Pickle has short, bristly hair all over, mottled black and brown. Angry Young Man
The adult in breeding plumage is mottled black-and-brown, with little or no rufous coloration.
Peering into the bushes that fringed the gurgling mountain brook, I soon caught sight of the little triller, and found that, so far as I could distinguish them with my field-glass, his markings were just like those of his eastern relative -- the same mottled breast, with the large dusky blotch in the centre. Birds of the Rockies
The muted red, gray and off-white mottled surface of the former brings to mind the texture of sinewy muscles; the monochromatic black installs a simple elegance on the latter. ArtScene: Current California Exhibitions You Should See
The woman was wearing a short sleeved beige top and her bare arms were mottled red from the cold.
The back of this snake is mottled.
Perennial scapose herbs with simple stems from short, stocky, horizontal rhizomes bearing a whorl of 3 net-veined, green or mottled, ovate-obovate or elliptical bracts, petiolate or sessile, flower solitary.
A mottled umber moth found its way onto a Glasgow window.
The juvenile is mottled-brown above with brown and buff streaking below.
The fabric was quite mottled to start with, so the stamping is subtle (though not quite as subtle in reality as in the photo, I admit). Archive 2007-01-01
The short list includes gadwalls, wigeons, mallards, shovelers, mottled ducks and pintails.
Others still have the mottled brown back of their summer plumage, while the juvenile birds are a chequered grey above. Times, Sunday Times
Should the disease take an unfavorable turn, the pulse grows more feeble and frequent, the tongue dryer and more cracked, the skin cold and mottled; while hiccup, subsultus, dyspnoea or coma comes on and death closes the scene by claiming its victim. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
Also, flying closely with it was a mottled vision of a bird, almost invisible against the black night sky.
Caught in sunlight, they are beautiful birds, since the yellow stripes on their mottled brown backs shine like gold. Times, Sunday Times
Here, exceptionally attractive, dark pink rhodonite mottled with black manganese oxides occurs in a siliceous lens associated with sphalerite, copper sulfides, and native copper.
If you absorb enough fluoride it can become dangerous - it does cause mottled teeth and there is an issue over bone damage.
The females are mottled brown and are less easily noticed. Times, Sunday Times
The larva of the mottled umber moth is a reddish brown caterpillar that eats the leaves of oak trees and shrubs.
His skin was mottled and his hair, a nasty ginger colour, hung over his forehead like a mop. Times, Sunday Times
A transparent cast ran from her knee to a few millimeters below her crotch, the skin beneath the rigid micropore mottled with bruises, the black shading into ugly yellow. Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth
In places the shale had flaked away giving the tower a mottled appearance; black nacreous scales littered the base of the walls and gleamed among the grasses. She Closed Her Eyes
We're silently praying for the moment we can plead sunburn and hide all out mottled bits under the outsize bullfight T-shirt.
Females, juveniles, and males in eclipse plumage (from May through August) are mottled brown with orange legs and a green-black iridescent speculum with a blue patch on the forewing.
Through the water he could see layers of other leaves that had earlier sunk to the bottom, arranging themselves in shaded and mottled patterns of burnt umber and sienna.
The young stay six weeks in the nest before they can fly, by which time they are mottled brown birds. Times, Sunday Times
Not emphasized, however, was the mottled, hardening effect of any fluorides on teeth or the possible accumulative long-term effect of such additions.
Fundal examination revealed that the left disc was mildly edematous ; however, its margin was not blurred and the appearance of mottled RPE was also noted in the left macula.
In fact, very little apart from the walls is new, and they have been painted with mottled colours or in timeless white. Times, Sunday Times
They have golden stripes on their head and down their richly mottled back. Times, Sunday Times
There was no chance of snowfall, and the sky was a fine, mottled china-blue and off-white.
In the granary, which is usually a low back room, the ears of corn are often sorted by color and laid up in neat piles, red, yellow, white, blue, black, and mottled, a Hopi study in corn color. The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi
The face and legs are black, or sometimes mottled, the horns spiral, and on the top of the forehead it has a small round tuft of lighter-coloured wool than on the face; has the muzzle and lips of the same light hue, and what shepherds call a mealy mouth; the eye is full of vivacity and fire, and well open; the body long, round, and firm, and the limbs robust. The Book of Household Management
Whilst passing this end of the island at sea, I could not imagine what the white patches were with which the whole plain was mottled; I now found that they were seafowl, sleeping in such full confidence, that even in midday a man could walk up and seize hold of them. Chapter XXI
The background is a lightly mottled blue - the look you get when you apply ultramarine, a semitransparent pigment, in a reasonably straightforward fashion.
Stately palms had turned a mottled desert yellow, monuments to their own past life. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
His eyes were wide open, staring blindly at the ceiling - his face was a mottled blue.
the cut surface was mottled
And wigeon and scaup, teal and shovelers, buffleheads and a few mottled ducks.
A red kite was right in front of me in a gaunt old ash tree; it was a raptor of considerable size, with mottled brown and rufous plumage and a distinctive forked tail. Country diary: East Yorkshire
Even today, you stand a chance of being apprehended for "dressing improperly" - which can mean anything from letting your beer belly hang out, to exposing mottled thighs or pasty midriffs.
The mottled gray marble was probably quarried at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania; the mantels in the less formal rooms are wooden.
Mottled ducks at least remain skittish around people and present some challenge.
These are still a dark mottled brown, and will not acquire their full white plumage until they are four years old. Times, Sunday Times
The book's pages were mottled with brown stains.
They include slurred speech, muscle pain and mottled skin. The Sun
Others still have the mottled brown back of their summer plumage, while the juvenile birds are a chequered grey above. Times, Sunday Times
Various mineral localities occur throughout the county, of which some of the most important occur on the shore at Portsoy, as for example the gabbro masses in Portsoy Bay with enstatite, hypersthene and labradorite, the graphic granite with microcline, muscovite and tourmaline at East Head, the chiastolite-schist west of the marble quarry, the mottled serpentine with strings of chrysotile. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
He twists his head, exposing one rheumy malevolent eye and half a mottled, gummy mouth.
The Upland Sandpiper is a black, brown, and white mottled bird with a long neck and tail and yellow legs.
Their mottled brown back can make it very hard to see them against the bark. Times, Sunday Times
The female is a mottled brown. Times, Sunday Times
The females are a mottled brown and orange. Times, Sunday Times
He wore a mottled camouflage jacket and a lightweight stetson and carried an automatic rifle.
She's a short-horn dairy calf, brown and mottled with huge, sweet eyes.
He was a large teddy bear of a parson, with a face mottled by a penchant for aqua vitae. GOODBYE CURATE
Her hair stuck to her face in soaked strands and her skin was mottled with exertion, every wrinkle boldface with anxiety. ROUGH JUSTICE
Juveniles appear similar to adults in non-breeding plumage, but the gray mantle is mottled.
The young stay six weeks in the nest before they can fly, by which time they are mottled brown birds. Times, Sunday Times
From a distance, this appears to be the mottled brown of old brick, but as I get closer I see that there is a coating of fine brown weed.
The crinkles in the gold leaf highlight the delicate texture of lace, the mottled surface of a pine plank table, or the peeling walls.
He was tall, with dark brown hair and green eyes mottled with flecks of brown.
A blister burst near the woman's temple, sending a run of viscous fluid over the mottled landscape of her cheek. DO NO HARM
They are a pale mottled brown all over, and they look to me like flying dollops of creamy porridge. Times, Sunday Times
His mottled livery was grass-stained and earth-stained, and he had dizened it with a kind of woodland finery. The Proud Prince
Each stem carries up to 10 nodding sulphur coloured flared bell shaped flowers, growing from a base of deep green foliage that has attractive mottled markings.
A little calico kitten, mottled with orange, brown, and white, had caught her eye.
Why did this bird of alder thickets and young moist forests, with its long bill designed to probe for earthworms in loamy soil, wearing mottled feathers that perfectly match the leaf litter of its secluded habitats, choose to fly directly over the biggest, busiest, brightest city in the country? Uncategorized Blog Posts
Her blue eyes swept all in rapid review -- the guns leaning against the tree; the bunch of dead bluebill ducks hanging beyond; the improvised table and bench outside; the enormous mottled rattlesnake skin tacked lengthways on a live-oak. A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories
They have golden stripes on their head and down their richly mottled back. Times, Sunday Times
A yew tree lost in the build has been turned into a curved bookcase and a mottled sliding door. Times, Sunday Times
The smyrus differs from the smyraena; for the muraena is mottled and weakly, whereas the smyrus is strong and of one uniform colour, and the colour resembles that of the pine-tree, and the animal has teeth inside and out. The History of Animals
His features were twisted and mottled with rage, and foam flecked his lips as he rasped at her.
There was a bruise on her cheekbone and her forearms were mottled with them.
It is mottled brown overall, with cinnamon underwings.
Then right on its heels came mottled chlorosis—the poinsettia leaves were shaped fine, they just looked as if they had contracted measles. BAD GIRL CREEK
The church floor was carpeted in mottled wall-to-wall carpeting.
He had shoulder length brown hair, mottled with grey, parted centrally in the fashion last seen in about 1982 on dole office regulars and staff.
His friend's skin had mottled with rage and his lips were white like the underbelly of a fish.
She pushed through the door and past the dark mahogany bar, her eyes trailing over the mad mishmash of mirrors and chandeliers, the wood-panelled walls bedecked with mottled old Chinese prints, the crazed fruit plasterwork on the ceiling. The Priest
These are still a dark mottled brown, and will not acquire their full white plumage until they are four years old. Times, Sunday Times
Its wings are mottled brown, small eyespots dotting the scalloped edges here and there, small circles with tails on them.
The text is also mottled by tea stains and biscuit crumbs. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes the road dipped into a canyon of poplars, and the sky between their crests was a tiny strip of mottled blue and white. A Traveller in War-Time
Their mottled brown back can make it very hard to see them against the bark. Times, Sunday Times
He reached for the shack’s radio, tuned it to a soft midnight station, and sat in a mottled armchair that had been requisitioned from the garbage wastelands. Breakdown
Using a sponge the body is mottled with green paint to give a pleasing finish
They are a pale mottled brown all over, and they look to me like flying dollops of creamy porridge. Times, Sunday Times
High quality coldwater streams typically contain a fish population composed solely of one or more salmonid species like the brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis and one or more native stenothermal coldwater or coolwater species like the mottled sculpin Cottus bairdi.
The text is also mottled by tea stains and biscuit crumbs. Times, Sunday Times
Others still have the mottled brown back of their summer plumage, while the juvenile birds are a chequered grey above. Times, Sunday Times
The mottled brown raptors I saw on the sixth are indeed immature Brahminy Kites.
There is no ticket booth, the mottled walls, the empty waiting area, like an abandoned station.
Caught in sunlight, they are beautiful birds, since the yellow stripes on their mottled brown backs shine like gold. Times, Sunday Times
As the L.A.-based painter makes staggeringly evident, meat is raw organic matter, streaked with stringy sinew and mottled with roseate fat.
We saw willets in breeding plumage, greater yellowlegs, and some ducks the identity of which was uncertain, maybe mottled ducks. Corpus Christi Caller Times, Caller.com Stories
The skin is mottled pale orange, the paste parchment yellow. Food Watch
Short-eared Owls are medium-sized owls with mottled brown and buff plumage.
At Samson's farm, a Kipepeo representative shows up every Monday and Thursday morning to collect his chrysalises, which range in color from mottled brown to lime green with flecks of metallic gold.
His main concerns with fluoridation include the potential risk of brain cancer, hip fractures and mottled teeth.
The leg is mottled and digital gangrene is common, but pedal pulses are usually palpable.
Albatross, cape pigeons, diving petrels, monymawks, mottled petrels, and sooty shearwaters all took their turns skimming our bow wave for fish.
These are still a dark mottled brown, and will not acquire their full white plumage until they are four years old. Times, Sunday Times
A veil wrapped tightly around her face shows as little of her mottled skin as she can manage. Times, Sunday Times
Various mineral localities occur throughout the county, of which some of the most important occur on the shore at Portsoy, as for example the gabbro masses in Portsoy Bay with enstatite, hypersthene and labradorite, the graphic granite with microcline, muscovite and tourmaline at East Head, the chiastolite-schist west of the marble quarry, the mottled serpentine with strings of chrysotile. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
The dining room has a mottled beige carpet and sliding glass doors to the patio area.
The Ohua too, a pink scaled fish, shaped like a trout; the opukai, beautifully striped and mottled; the mullet and flying fish as common here as mackerel at home; the hala, a fine pink-fleshed fish, the albicore, the bonita, the manini striped black and white, and many others. The Hawaiian Archipelago
Nonetheless, it looked like a mine, a cobwebbed hole framed in tilted timbers, damp-mottled and grey with age. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
They include slurred speech, muscle pain and mottled skin. The Sun
His brindled hide had lost its luster, the short hair mottled by patches of dried blood.
Huge mottled leaves hung like tattered flags. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
Oak tortrix (fat, green, black-spotted) and mottled umber caterpillars (black, brown and yellow mottled) are abundant. Country Diary: Cranleigh, Surrey
A blister burst near the woman's temple, sending a run of viscous fluid over the mottled landscape of her cheek. DO NO HARM
Which last, though blue beyond all shadow of doubt, yet manifested itself in divers quite ordinary ways as, -- in complexions of cream and roses; in skins sallow and wrinkled; in noses haughtily Roman or patricianly Greek, in noses mottled and unclassically uplifted; in black hair, white hair, yellow, brown, and red hair; -- such combinations as he had seen many and many The Amateur Gentleman
Then a smile of scornful superiority, mingled perhaps with a sense of previous slights and unappreciation, drew back his little upper lip, and brightened his mottled cheek. A Sappho of Green Springs
Sara whirled around, cheeks mottled red in embarrassment as soon as she saw the intruder.
Besides the narrow endemics listed above, characteristic birds of the escarpment forests and woodlands include red-crested turaco (Tauraco erythrolophus), red-backed mousebird (Colius castanotus) (both endemic to Angola), mottled spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri), batlike spinetail (Neafrapus boehmi), naked-faced barbet (Gymnobucco calvus), red-tailed palm thrush (Cichladusa ruficauda), and yellow-bellied wattle-eye (Dyaphorophyia concreta). Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands
There was a mottled rocky slope with spiky crags reaching into cloud.
A veil wrapped tightly around her face shows as little of her mottled skin as she can manage. Times, Sunday Times
Then their skin became mottled, sometimes turning purple, as mucus flooded the lungs. The Sun
The females are mottled brown and are less easily noticed. Times, Sunday Times
The shells of live lobsters are mottled green, blue and red.
Some people suffer from sore throats, attacks of diarrhea or constipation, and their skin may have a mottled look.
He was a large teddy bear of a parson, with a face mottled by a penchant for aqua vitae. GOODBYE CURATE
The body is then stippled with a sponge soaked in black paint to give the body a mottled effect.
Mottled red-gray slate tiles surface the backsplash and a long side wall; the counters are stainless steel or black granite with chiseled edges.
The females are a mottled brown and orange. Times, Sunday Times
Mottled anorthosite is found frequently associated with structures associated with fluid or residual magma movement and exhibits both gradational and cross-cutting relationships with host rock cumulates.
The flesh is orange-yellow and mottled with red, with an almost peachlike texture.
Infected tomato plant leaves become mottled and discolored and the stalks grow weak and spindly.
The warm water moray eel is also caught from time to time, although this is a mottled fish with a pointed face, very different from the steely grey of the conger.
It tends to be seen sitting on barnacle-covered rocks, in only a few feet of water, where its mottled pale brown and green colouring provides excellent camouflage.
Beyond teal, his hunters returned with mixed straps that included shovelers, gadwalls and mottled ducks.
I had to comb the shops for two days until I finally found one in Huntly - a manky, mottled looking thing, with the skin of a toad.
A woman who first seems to be carrying a patch of cloud-mottled sky in her lap proves to be clutching a blue net tote containing crumpled tissue and mail.
Juveniles have a dark crown with no plumes or ruff, and a mottled neck.
Most notable was a splendid green half-ball mottled with white and blue. HOTHOUSE
Their mottled brown and streaked feathers are at their best in the few weeks before breeding begins. Times, Sunday Times
Her calves, soles, toes, palms, and fingertips were dark red and mottled.
The skin is mottled pale orange, the paste parchment yellow. Food Watch
In summer their dappled shade doesn't overwhelm lawns and plants around them, and in winter, the bark is mottled.
She blushed, that deep, mottled raspberry stain fair-skinned girls show, and I left her alone.
True, the skin on his arms has been scarred and mottled by the sun, a side-effect of living in Hawaii.
Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors. The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
In fact, very little apart from the walls is new, and they have been painted with mottled colours or in timeless white. Times, Sunday Times
He was leaning against the wall for support, his right arm and the crown of his head mottled with fermenting bruises.
Juveniles and females are mottled brown with a dark bill and yellowish legs.
Four ‘Freefall Image’ sculptures were made of connected bronze rods with mottled surfaces and polished highlights.
The thing was hairless and mottled pink, with freckly patches on its tight skin and an even pinker tail that looked chewed. Beard
His complexion was mottled red and white, as if somebody had applied suction cups to it, and he was staring stonily, blindly straight ahead. NO BODY
Often looks rather besotted with a congested mottled and purple face; a bloated face but not oedema.
Very hardy, with white flowers, dramatic blue juvenile foliage, mottled flaking bark, a small to medium tree, smaller when multistemmed. Times, Sunday Times
His eyes were threaded with blood and his face was still pale from the winter but flushed, mottled.
Her hair stuck to her face in soaked strands and her skin was mottled with exertion, every wrinkle boldface with anxiety. ROUGH JUSTICE
Adults are generally mottled light-and-dark underneath, with dark patches at the wrists.
But he was the more astonished in noticing that her mustang was as distinct and peculiar as herself -- a mongrel mare of the extraordinary type known as a "pinto," or "calico" horse, mottled in lavender and pink, Arabian in proportions, and half broken! From Sand Hill to Pine
In the hand The drake mallard is the most readily recognized duck, but the hen can be easily confused with the black duck, gadwall, and mottled duck. Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl
Females are a mottled drab brown with a long, orange, black splotched bill, black crown, dark eye-line, and orange legs.
Then their skin became mottled, sometimes turning purple, as mucus flooded the lungs. The Sun
He was wearing a mottled camouflage combat jacket over traditional Arab dress.

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