[
UK
/stˈɪpəl/
]
VERB
- make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink
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produce a mottled effect
The sunlight stippled the trees - apply (paint) in small dots or strokes
- engrave by means of dots and flicks
How To Use stipple In A Sentence
- The technique of stipple goes back to the fifteenth century.
- I like to stipple the black paint with a green paint to produce a nice camouflaged body.
- I first noticed it here years ago, a stippled forefinger pointing upstream. Times, Sunday Times
- Instead, I peered up at my ceiling which I'd stippled myself.
- And in the FOR ME column of our imagined list, not in the treasured top slots but up there, would be the gift of Joycean spam upon a digital reemergence: boltmaker stippled scrapy heartedness burgoo overplentiful unended hydrophobous. Eveline | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
- Ten vocabularies scumbled inner hello, stippled wit black inc. The light that draws the flower
- It also came with built-in wardrobes - the louvred kind - stippled ceilings and woodchip wallpaper, which all seemed so smart and modern in 1978.
- stippled" the ceilings of the White House with interns. Yahoo! Sports - Top News
- They crossed a field stippled with purple weeds.
- Representation of the wind system and precipitation area stippled in a middle - latitude cyclone.
