pocked

How To Use pocked In A Sentence

• And of this tufty flaggy ground, pocked with bogs and boglets, one especial nature is that it will not hold impressions. Lorna Doone
• She scrambled up the ladder and shots cracked from guns and ricocheted off metal and pocked brick wall.
• Not only does Sacco render brilliantly the crater-pocked streets of Gorazde, the faces of amputees in bombed-out hospitals, the uniforms of the Serb military, but he draws in detail the design on the package of the ubiquitous Drina cigarettes and the hairstyles of the girls he meets who ask him to bring Levi's 501s from Sarajevo. Maus Culture
• He was a thin, short man, with an acne-pocked face and observant brown eyes hazed with green.
• Bullet-pocked, bombed-out buildings line the way.
• On such occasions, he would throw back his head, shut his eyes and roar his wrath at his opponents in a most disquieting manner, and when he returned home, whether he had won or lost his fight, his paper would bristle for two or three weeks with rage, and his editorial page would be full of lurid articles written in short exclamatory sentences, pocked with italics, capital letters and black-faced lines. In Our Town
• That same wind sundered the clouds to reveal a swollen, pocked moon, and a shaft of nacreous moonglow doused the ground before my feet. Shadow Walker
• He had a kind of wicker hat on his head, and under it was a face that would have shamed a gorilla -- huge flat nose, pocked cheeks, little yellow eyes and big yellow teeth. Flash For Freedom
• The country is pocked with tunnels, bunkers and subterranean chambers where production facilities could be hidden. Times, Sunday Times
• Zion Gate" 2010 is a close-up of part of a wall built around the old city of Jerusalem by the Ottoman sultan in 1540: The massive stone blocks are pocked with holes left from gunfire during the Israeli war of independence in 1948, when the Palmach was unable to gain control of the nearby Jewish quarter. Of Lost People and Lands of Fragments