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• The bird's eggs were speckled as camouflage.From the entry speckled
• Long believed to be extinct, the purple-bellied speckled turtle was sighted for the first time in living memory in a remote pasture near Chicago.From the entry in living memory
• The male cuckoo is dark in colour, while its female is speckled (called the Gomara Koha).1997, Gamini de S. G. Punchihewa, Vignettes of Far Off Things: Introducing the History, Tank Civilization, Jungle Lore, Fauna, & Flora and…. From the entry koha
• Most graphiums have a speckled pattern, and they are fast fliers.1993, John Feltwell, The Encyclopedia of Butterflies, page 41. From the entry flier
• Fo speaks in “grammelot,” a kind of polyglot gabble speckled with an occasional intelligible word.1986 May 25, Scott Rosenberg, “Dario Fo, Italy's Political Clown, Pays a Visit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry grammelot
• If abundant enough, it imparts a speckled appearance to the rock.1972, F[rancis] J[ohn] Pettijohn, Paul Edwin Potter, Raymond Siever, Sand and Sandstone, Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN…. From the entry greensand
• They passed undulating fields of wheat speckled with the confetti of poppies and bluets.1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 232. From the entry bluet
• Writers suffering from hyphenitis produce pages which look very much like a speckled hen.1961, Jack T. Huber, Report Writing in Psychology and Psychiatry, page 80. From the entry hyphenitis
• The couple currently keeps seventeen chickens—Araucanas, some Sebright bantams, Silkies, speckled Sussexes, and a Maran—in a coop built by Brian.2022, Margot Guralnick, Fan Winston, Remodelista: The Low-Impact Home: A Sourcebook for Stylish, Eco-Conscious Living, Artisan, →ISBN. From the entry Sussex
• Gripping the long branch of a speckled alder tree, ecologist Deborah Landau slowly steps into the waist-deep murky water.2022 June 3, Mark Hendricks, The Guardian. From the entry speckled alder
• Speckle better watch out.” “I do not!2019 May 3, Lisa Hanawalt & Raphael Bob-Waksberg, “The Sugar Bowl” (14:20 from the start), in Tuca & Bertie, season 1, episode 1, spoken…. From the entry patisserie
• Two and a half miles below, smoke from the artillery bombardment drifted like dirty ground-mist, speckled with soft, small flashes.2011, Derek Robinson, Hornet's Sting. From the entry ground-mist
• In one particularly beautiful dytiscid, the speckled Thermonectus marmoratus, the secretion contains two steroids, cybisterone (74) and mirasorvone (75).2005, Thomas Eisner, Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-legged Creatures. From the entry mirasorvone
• There is a great many breeds of hens, just now, but the old-fashioned speckled hen breed is the most flattering.1953, Donald Day, Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh, page 129. From the entry outcackle
• He saw how it made the water have rainbowy speckles on it, that wink different colors as the water splashed and splodged.2014, Larry Grogan, Trauma Town. From the entry rainbowy
• Unlike the East China sea, which is devoid of islands, the South China sea is speckled with a vast number of islands and reefs.1964, Theodore Shabad, “CHINA SEA”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 5, →OCLC, page 612, column 2. From the entry Chung-sha
• All three mountain-ashes are shrubs of climax and subclimax northern coniferous forest communities, along with speckled alder, Labrador tea, mountain and red maples, yellow birch, and bunchberry.1974, William M. Healy, Shrubs and Vines for Northeastern Wildlife, numbers 6-10, page 99. From the entry mountain ash

Meaning of speckle

1. noun A small spot or speck on the skin, plumage or foliage.
2. noun The random distribution of light when it is scattered by a rough surface.
3. noun Kind; sort.

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How do you use speckle in a sentence?

Speckle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The bird's eggs were speckled as camouflage.”

What is a short sentence with speckle?

“Speckle better watch out.” “I do not!”

What does speckle mean?

Speckle means a small spot or speck on the skin, plumage or foliage.