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pockmarked

[ UK /pˈɒkmɑːkt/ ]
[ US /ˈpɑkˌmɑɹkt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease
  2. used of paved surfaces having holes or pits

How To Use pockmarked In A Sentence

  • 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
  • Her next correspondent is white, pockmarked, with a pony tail.
  • 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
  • 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. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Though the island's moonlike interior - pockmarked with lime and mudflats - makes for a startling contrast with the picturesque coastline.
  • Even the golf course is pockmarked with holes with steam coming out.
  • A pockmarked sign on the roof of the house said HIELAN HAME, underneath, in smaller letters, LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
  • Male prisoners entering the Old Fort passed through an entrance tunnel; the walls are pockmarked with gunholes, in case the fort was ever attacked.
  • 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.
  • The reef face is pockmarked by some fairly deep caves where only qualified cave divers should venture.
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