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• Many apple varieties are mottled or russet, with a rough, dull skin hiding crisp, flavorful flesh.2015, Jennifer A. Jordan, “Remembering Applies”, in Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes & Other Forgotten Foods, Chicago, Ill.…. From the entry russet
• Even her legs, bare and mottled beneath her bumphled skirts, have a healthy growth about them.2015, Karen Campbell, Rise. From the entry bumphle
• He roared and dismissed the class, hitting out with his old mottled gnarled niefs.1989, Anthony Burgess, The Devil's Mode. From the entry nief
• Kestrels they hunted down for their clusters of mottled cackleberries.2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 218. From the entry cackleberry
• He also documented some intercalated mottled reddish clays and marls, and the upper horizons containing bluish clays with conglomerate beds.2015, Megh Raj Dhital, “Siwaliks of Arun–Tamar Region”, in Geology of the Nepal Himalaya: Regional Perspective of the Classic Collided…. From the entry conglomerate
• The entire light green leaf center is mottled red to reddish-green, giving even more curious combinations of colors.2015, Laurence C. Hatch, HITS: House, Interior, Tropical, and Succulent Plants:: Genera A to B. From the entry reddish-green
• The body is cool to the touch, mottled, and rigored.2008, Will Chapleau, Melissa Alexander, Barron's EMT: Emergency Medical Technician Exam, page 39. From the entry rigored
• Mottled brown and black, with a pink, appaloosa mouth.2005, David Francis, The Great Inland Sea, page 141. From the entry appaloosa
• But the magnificent striped, mottled, and hemlined skirts, and the martial names the tulip hybrids used to have, are long gone.2000, Anita Albus, The art of arts: rediscovering painting, page 246. From the entry hemlined
• A mottled blanket of debris from many active volcanoes gives Io the youngest surface in the solar system.1990 August, Bradford A. Smith, “Voyage of the Century”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 50. From the entry io
• Citricola scales look similar to brown soft scales except immature scales are mottled dark brown and mature ones are gray.1990, Mary Louise Flint, “Common Insects, Mites, Other Arthropods, Snails and Slugs”, in Pests of the Garden and Small Farm: A Grower’s…. From the entry citricola scale
• The overlying fine-grained to medium-grained sandstone includes the characteristic mottled lithology and is several metres thick, often with pachydermal jointing.1989, Tasmania. Geological Survey, Explanatory Report, One Mile Geological Map Series. From the entry pachydermal
• Passenger saloons are tastefully furnished with wood veneer and partitions, mottled grey Vyanide walls, pale primrose ceilings and grey floor.1961 February, “New "Mini-Buffets" from Wolverton”, in Trains Illustrated, page 79. From the entry primrose
• The sepals cameo pink, barred and mottled with Schoenfeld's purple.1932, The Philippine Journal of Science, volume 47, page 209. From the entry Schoenfeld's purple
• Spragg consentingly slipped the rings from her small mottled hands.1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country. From the entry consentingly
• Old men with mottled skin and flabby cheeks looking for something young to help them forget the flaccidness time has heaped on them.2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters’ Street, Vintage (2010), pages 178-179. From the entry flaccidness
• A number of the smaller of these lenses occur as an attractive mottled green rock, known as virginite, which is widely used for ornamental display.1986 December, “Polydymite and chrome-rich fuchsite in virginite from Baie Verte, Newfoundland”, in Mineralogical Magazine, volume 50…. From the entry virginite
• Some men were turning up with their faces covered with "bronzers" that made them look jaundiced, mottled terra cotta, or muddy brown.1984, Toni Stabile, Everything you want to know about cosmetics. From the entry bronzer
• A mild infestation gives trees and shrubbery a mottled or salt-and-pepper appearance; with a heavy mite population, foliage turns yellow and falls.1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 15, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pages 252–253. From the entry salt-and-pepper
• They are almost always accompanied by immature bald eagles that, although about the same size as a mature baldie, have a darkened head and mottled feathers.2010, Bruce Squiers, “Winter's Majesty”, in Marty Becker, Gina Spadafori, Mikkel Becker Shannon, editors, The Ultimate Bird Lover: Stories…. From the entry baldie
• The floor is constructed from marble lozenges and triangles of every imaginable hue: yellow and pink and all manner of mottled and blotched shades, framed in white.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 14. From the entry lozenge
• Siena in the summer was a bakeoven, and he took heat badly, his disposition becoming as rough and sore as the rashes that mottled him horn head to toe.1978, Herman Wouk, chapter 34, in War and Remembrance, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 361. From the entry bakeoven
• More and more my father chooses to decorate the stone surfaces with elaborate cipher, even though Tyndall stone, with its mottled coloring, is thought to be resistant to fine carving.1994, Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries, Toronto: Penguin., →ISBN, page 64. From the entry Tyndall stone

Meaning of mottled

1. adjective Colored in patches; spotted.

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How do you use mottled in a sentence?

Mottled is used as an adjective. For example: “The mottled skin of the snake was a camouflage that helped it blend in with the shadows.”

What is a short sentence with mottled?

“Mottled brown and black, with a pink, appaloosa mouth.”

What does mottled mean?

Mottled means colored in patches; spotted.