How To Use Pocked In A Sentence
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And of this tufty flaggy ground, pocked with bogs and boglets, one especial nature is that it will not hold impressions.
Lorna Doone
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She scrambled up the ladder and shots cracked from guns and ricocheted off metal and pocked brick wall.
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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
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He was a thin, short man, with an acne-pocked face and observant brown eyes hazed with green.
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Bullet-pocked, bombed-out buildings line the way.
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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
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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
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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
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The country is pocked with tunnels, bunkers and subterranean chambers where production facilities could be hidden.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Sprawling playa bottoms are pocked with feedlots, mountains of hay bales, and farm machinery rusting in tangled shelterbelts.
The Texas Panhandle: Home to Some of America's Best Pheasant Hunting
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Glass shatters and the metal gate, twisted beyond recognition, is thrown against the now shrapnel-pocked wall of the house.
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They're so plagued by lice, fleas, dander and mange that their coats are spotted with huge bald patches and pocked with weeping sores.
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In some well-heeled, McMansion-pocked suburbs, plywood nativities have been supplanted by elaborate sets with period costumes, soundtracks, Hollywood-esque lighting and camels rented for the occasion.
Awry in a Manger:
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Its armour is pocked with hundreds of dents from minor impacts.
Times, Sunday Times
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The neat paths were pocked with craters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Greensides, close to the top of Leith Walk, was fifteen years old, slabbed with obsolete fortification, pocked with likewise redundant gunports, and still referred to as ‘the new station’.
Well, Ken MacLeod agrees with me rather than with Jonathan Swift
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Their sides were pocked and scarred.
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Covered in lichen and scrub, missing boards and held together with rusty bolts the rickety structure spans a deep gorge and alights at what is now grassland pocked with ponga and scrub: a farm long abandoned.
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Berlin is pocked with meaningful erections that make the cranes and concrete mixers look aesthetic.
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On a street pocked with dark storefronts, and in a neighborhood with its share of urban blight, the Beachland's neon sign is a beacon.
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Reaching out she touched the ridged, pocked-marked surface of a loose board.
O' Bending Light
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Its light turned the overhead surface into a dazzling mirror pocked with dark splotches.
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Even if that's like a pocked red fruit?
Times, Sunday Times
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I could have lived without Annie Sullivan's writhing and lavishly bruised and sore-pocked young brother dying noisily in her arms in the middle of the second act, but I'm sure she could have, too.
The Miracle Worker
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The outfield had no bleachers; instead a more or less solid green wall pocked with ad banners extended up from the outfield fence to the mezzanine level, with the bullpens flush from the gaps to either foul line.
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The surface of the moon is pocked with craters.
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His face was pocked from bad food or disease and he thought he was a confederate general or in Apocalypse Now.
WHITE LIES
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They're so plagued by lice, fleas, dander and mange that their coats are spotted with huge bald patches and pocked with weeping sores.
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She would just giggle, putting a winkled hand over her pocked face.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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Main efficacy:Soften horny , promote the peeling of comedo, remove acne professionally , prevent various acne and pimples, heal pocked skin in order to make it resilient and shine.
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The goopy surface is pocked with craters where bubbles burst.
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The sward was pocked with wombats' holes!
Times, Sunday Times
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However, this was different. Goose bumps pocked his bare flesh.
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The bay window looked out onto the street, a wide stretch of paved road, pocked with grass and lined by a dozen more houses, spaced out by tens of feet of lush grass and shrubbery.
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The building's front face is pocked with dark-metal "tie-backs"—the kind that were at one point used to help restrain load-bearing brick walls of buildings, in the days before most structures rested safe and sound on reinforced steel skeletons.
High Line Hits a Snag
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She was tall and deathly skinny, Asian, but with really pale acne pocked skin and black rimmed glasses that matched her long straight hair.
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A couple of fire escapes and metal plated doors pocked the otherwise blank wall.
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This tonal restraint also contributes to the antique look of the works, whose distressed and pocked surfaces appear to have weathered over time.
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For the rest of the day we pound CRP plots, playa bottoms, and maize fields still pocked with hail craters from a recent storm.
The Texas Panhandle: Home to Some of America's Best Pheasant Hunting
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When he opened the door and stepped inside, he found a single, steam-clouded room lined with changing stalls, its wooden floor pocked with deep holes fizzing with bubbling water.
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When you lay the bag open for inspection, a heavy "pocked" plastic covers your computer in its compartment.
Robert J. Elisberg: The Writers Workbench: Airport-Checkable Luggage
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It is also noteworthy that the cell surfaces are pocked with pores which pass to the interior.
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In the second part of Henry IV Barrit's Falstaff, his face pocked with sores and his body decaying, became a more grotesque, more disturbing but also more exuberant figure.
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It must take at least a day or two for these dazed, sun struck survivors to get the idea that sidewalks, even though they are pocked with even more artfully-placed, ankle crunching hazards, could be the least dangerous place to be ambling.
Good morning, Melaque: one day in a small Mexico beach town
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In some places the stone is pocked and scarred by the corrosive effects of black sulphates.
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He jumped to his feet and clapped his hand on the shoulder of a slumped, pocked version of himself, with a face, astoundingly, even duller.
Bone Hinge
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They swirled by the curtain and I saw that the man's face was badly pocked and his black hair was stiff with scented brilliantine.
THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
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The result is a mingling of million-dollar condos and sleek wine bars with creaky, rent-controlled buildings and graffiti-pocked bodegas.
Prospect Heights Edges Into Crown Heights
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A few blocks south sits Mexican architect Enrique Norten 's recently finished garage, featuring a taut, white concrete façade pocked with perforations like a punch card.
Sleek, Chic Hangout ... a Garage
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Here, he swaps the comforts of delicate Feldman inflections for darker textures or veers into confrontational exchanges pocked with unhinged ellipses and omissions - enough to tweak the typically unflappable Rowe.
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His face was pocked from bad food or disease and he thought he was a confederate general or in Apocalypse Now.
WHITE LIES
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The moon's surface is pocked with small craters.
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An edge of indigo water, pocked with turquoise, then just white, stretched away all around.
Times, Sunday Times
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A furtive homosexual, he pocked his fiction with scathing descriptions of effeminate men.
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Across the canted summit of Garn Fadryn, the wintry heather is a dark chocolate-brown, pocked with hut circles, the plateau rim chased with the silver of stone fortifications and steep rock outcrops.
Country diary: Lleyn
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The moon's surface is pocked with small craters.
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On a wall was a 50-inch-square inked canvas called Moon that showed the pocked lunar face, which recalls in two dimensions the protruding hemispheres of the sculptures.
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He thanked the medical staff who determined he had been poisoned, which caused him extreme internal pain and left his face pocked and grey.
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The stucco was pocked and peeling, and the bluestone walk leading to the front door was cracked and chipped, as thin as fingernails in places.
The Bird House
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The valley is wet, the high benches are pocked with pothole lakes, springs, and ponds, and mastodons browse along a braided watercourse snaking across the bottomland at the foot of the cliff.
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The mechanics of this can be understood by thinking of a digital camera sensor as a flat sheet of material pocked with millions hence “mega” of cylindrical, cuplike pixels.
Cupcakes and camera pixels
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In some places the stone is pocked and scarred by the corrosive effects of black sulphates.
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The surface of the moon is pocked with craters.
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Aspiring actors, the boys are confident they could make it big in Hollywood - if only they could do something about their crooked teeth, weak chins, beaky noses and acne-pocked skin.
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From the creased limestone walls, scoured and pocked into strange, jagged forms, winked small flecks of minerals and crystals.
GRACE
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Soot-stained paint peeled in great strips from rickety frame buildings, pocked with broken windows that wore rusty, torn screens.
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Slashed by rivers and canals, pocked with polders, meers and lakes and meshed in a web of interconnecting drainage ditches, the Netherlands are a long distance skater's dream.
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Though in good physical form, his face remains bloated and pocked.
The Star (South Africa)
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The building's front face is pocked with dark-metal "tie-backs"—the kind that were at one point used to help restrain load-bearing brick walls of buildings, in the days before most structures rested safe and sound on reinforced steel skeletons.
High Line Hits a Snag
