Wiktionary
a. To be intertwined with something, to be infused by some quality.
Usage examples of "shot through with".
The retort was starting to bubble in his hands, and the liquid inside had turned from transparent to ocher yellow shot through with green.
The Palace and Temple were shot through with intrigue and politics.
His skin was wrinkled and the black of his hair was shot through with gray.
The gun leapt back until the breeching ropes brought it up with a twang, belching a cloud of smoke shot through with a knife blade of red fire.
A tremendous rock shot through with the red of iron oxide rolled up behind them and somersaulted gracefully to the left as the Thek veered around it, a tiny arrowhead against its mass.
She reached the picnic benches across the road from the burial mounds and slowed, winded and shot through with the heat of her exertion, but calm again as well, distanced momentarily from her frustration and doubt.
The deafening waves of sound and overpressure seemed to squeeze the air out of his lungs, and the brimstone stench was shot through with lurid tongues of flame, like some demon's paradise turned loose on mortal beings.
The Castle Club was not so much a club as a glassed-in eating area with red fake-leather banquettes, Formica tables made to look like wood, and beveled mirrors shot through with faux gold marbling.
His name is Three-phasing and he is bald and wrinkled, slightly over one meter tall, large-eyed, toothless and all bones and skin, sagging pale skin shot through with traceries of delicate blue and red.
She was surrounded by a circle of bulbous Trees, distinctively cream and shot through with reds and golds and browns, sprouting up from the spongy main body of the choo machine living below.
The car's fuel tanks detonated with a plume of fatally beautiful orange flame shot through with the silver of liquefied metal.
Slowly, circulation resumed in my left leg, and it felt like a pincushion shot through with a thousand sharp needles.
About every fourth shot was a dud, but otherwise there would then, a moment or two later, be a crack and a puff of smoke shot through with a flare of yellow flame.
Now he sees that he has become atavistically hairy, and his beard glints, because it is shot through with grey hairs.