How To Use Pockmarked In A Sentence
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Mjadara is classic peasant food, an ancient dish whose name means “the pockmarked one,” for the dark lentils embedded in grain.
Day of Honey
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As darkness swelled up from the east a full moon rose and illuminated great sheets of thin cloud like wadded fabric drawn across its pockmarked white face.
Bird Cloud
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The living room is pockmarked with bullet holes.
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Footage broadcast on Israeli media showed homes pockmarked with large shrapnel holes from where mortar shells exploded.
Hamas fires dozens of mortars at Israel
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The houses in the village were pockmarked with bullet holes.
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The Ancient Islamic fort guarding the harbor is pockmarked from years of shelling.
Reporter's Notebook: Mogadishu
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In its lee, on ground still pockmarked by the trampling of cattle, is a song thrush.
Country diary: South Uist
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Mo Kan - cheng gave Pockmarked Li his ten dollars, and the latter departed well pleased with himself.
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The ground was treacherous, pockmarked with deep holes, dead soldiers and broken horses.
TREASON KEEP
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The lake's edges are pockmarked by hundreds of steep, narrow coves that provide absolute privacy for the cruising mariner.
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All the buildings are pockmarked and streaked with dust.
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The ground was treacherous, pockmarked with deep holes, dead soldiers and broken horses.
TREASON KEEP
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The road itself is pockmarked with shell holes, while unexploded missiles and bombs stick up from the dirt of surrounding fields.
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Centuries-old valley oaks are pockmarked with holes made by acorn woodpeckers, who stash acorns by the thousands in the bark.
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I'm not certain, but I think Jeannie's face may have been pockmarked in places.
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Today, buildings within 200 yards of the ornate, gold-domed structures are pockmarked with bullet holes.
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He had a sallow pockmarked complexion with little sinister eyes.
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We walk through the snow, now pockmarked and honeycombed, towards his barn.
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Where once there were thriving communities with neat rows of terraced houses there are now large, soulless sink estates pockmarked with yuppie designer nightmares thrown up in the eighties.
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Now his complexion is pockmarked and a sickly green.
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Down the road, at the university's medical school - it dates from 1927 and the facade is still pockmarked with bullet holes from a battle in the 1936-39 civil war - 21-year-old Maria Perez is two weeks away from graduating with a degree in podology and she is far from thrilled.
The Seattle Times
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Known for his ruggedly handsome, almost movie star looks, his skin now is severely pockmarked.
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The battlefield is still pockmarked with shell craters
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The buildings' wall was pockmarked with bullet holes.
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And then there was a big, brawling, pockmarked palooka with tight curly hair and a big gut whose huge, ham-hock hands relentlessly pounded his victims into total, abject submission.
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The fellow scratched at a pockmarked nose and coughed, eyeing the mare uneasily.
The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Seven
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The reef face is pockmarked by some fairly deep caves where only qualified cave divers should venture.
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According to The Telegraph's Tim Butcher, headstones at Britain's Commonwealth war cemetery in Gaza City were not only "pockmarked" by shrapnel from Israeli artillery, but some were even destroyed during the Israeli "operation" in Beit Hanoun.
NO PEACE, NO PLACE FOR PALESTINE
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The differences between Broadmoor and New Orleans East — two neighborhoods of similar racial and socioeconomic makeup but miles apart in post-Katrina recovery — symbolize the pockmarked rebuilding process ongoing in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast.
Six years after Katrina, pockets of New Orleans languishing
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Mo Kan - cheng gave Pockmarked Li his ten dollars, and the latter departed well pleased with himself.
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Her next correspondent is white, pockmarked, with a pony tail.
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National Weather Service The hailstone, here being weighed on an official postal scale at the tiny U.S. Post Office in Vivian, was one of many huge ones that pummeled the town's roofs and pockmarked cars and pickup trucks last summer.
Mr. Scott's Hefty Hailstone
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Hollywood is a porcelain skin over a pockmarked landscape of shattered dreams and when a tsunamic wave of pus from old and new wounds surges no medications on earth can prevent the utter destruction it wreaks.
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Though the island's moonlike interior - pockmarked with lime and mudflats - makes for a startling contrast with the picturesque coastline.
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Even the golf course is pockmarked with holes with steam coming out.
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A pockmarked sign on the roof of the house said HIELAN HAME, underneath, in smaller letters,
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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Male prisoners entering the Old Fort passed through an entrance tunnel; the walls are pockmarked with gunholes, in case the fort was ever attacked.
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From the stories told by Cherie's close friends, mother, sister, and shadchan, I realized that her road towards matrimony had been pockmarked by sudden detours, geographic dislocations, and emotional turbulence.
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The reef face is pockmarked by some fairly deep caves where only qualified cave divers should venture.
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Her face was pockmarked by the disease
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Pacifica was tall and plain, with protruding pale eyes and pockmarked skin.
TREASON KEEP
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Inside her flat the carpet was covered in broken glass and plaster, the walls pockmarked by bullets and shrapnel.
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He said government data collection projects are often "pockmarked" with omissions and outright errors,
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The manhole covers had gone, leaving the streets pockmarked with gaping mantraps, while one abandoned tank was vanishing day by day, melting away "as if its armour-plating had been made of ice".
Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
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Nearby buildings were pockmarked by shrapnel.
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As darkness swelled up from the east a full moon rose and illuminated great sheets of thin cloud like wadded fabric drawn across its pockmarked white face.
Bird Cloud
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It used the full width of the spire to house the eagles and the ceiling was pockmarked with holed through which the birds entered.
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The walls of his house were pockmarked by coalition fire.
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The name is corny, but the results can turn pockmarked neighborhood streets around in a single weekend.
Al Abrams: Let's Fix LA From the Ground Up, One Pothole at a Time
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The land looked like the surface of the moon now, the earth pockmarked, dotted with tiny lakes and outcropping white rock.
DESPERADOES
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The second is a dirty buzz carved from the crude hum of electric motors as amplified by dirty magnetic coils and pockmarked by amorphous rattles and disembodied thuds.
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His tiny flat is on the first floor of a deck-access block, in a district riven by urban motorways and pockmarked with decaying council estates.
Peter Tatchell, still on the front line at 60 | Nick Cohen
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The attack, inside a government-run religious school, shattered windows and pockmarked the walls with shrapnel and splattered blood.
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He was a big thick guy with a large pockmarked nose and small green eyes.
So Much Pretty
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Kans., is known as a deathtrap for shock absorbers, while the pockmarked I-5 south of
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The highway leading to the hospital and the trade fair was pockmarked with craters caused by the attack.
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It could be a piece on building your collection, buying your books from pavements, Wheeler stalls, traffic signals or ordering them on the net; fanatic non-lenders who don't lend their books no matter what; lenders who are always passing on their books; rage at book vandals who scribble in ballpoint pen in the margins and underline lines they are particularly moved by; diarists; fetishes like only buying hard back; memories associated with inscriptions on the first page; the heady smell of old paper pockmarked with pinholes; serendipitious discoveries; the quirks of your local lending library, lifelong quests to source and own a whole series, say Granta or the Time Life series; first-edition fanatics; inheriting grandpa's collections and so on.
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