What is "stipple"

Usage examples of "stipple".

Sunlight now filtered through the trees on an angle through the highest branches and she sought out a broad, strong shaft of it, stippled with boiling dust and litterfall, and lay on her back in its luminous warmth, her face turned toward heaven.

Hours later, crickets chirruped and nightjars cooed as evening stippled the jungle canopy with scattershot stars.

Ancient trunks and knotted vines, giant ferns and stippled foliage, the languid monotone of botanical patterning interrupted, at precisely the proper moment, by a sudden caesura in the greenery, bright orchids dazzling as summer clouds, flavored cups of epiphytic ice protruding from their beds of root growth thick as pubic hair up in the crotches of the stilted mangrove trees, or the swoop of incandescent plumage as a blue-throated flycatcher sailed out into the open river space and vanished, the eye barely registering its passage.

There are Herefords and Angus and mixes including a cross called Black Ballys or Baldys that look like black minstrel-cows in white face A few Charolais and Brahmas and Durhams are stippled into the landscape, but the lineage of most Paradise Valley steers is too murky to chart.

Tatarinovo, while the Frenchies wiped out the sunlit landscape, slapping down their colours of choice over the canvas of the plain below: angry clouds erupting and drifting up in grey smears, stippled blocks of blue coats pushed into the centre where they clashed with the black of the Russians and poured over the muddy browns of the gouged earthworks and redoubts.

The train clanked and jerked around the curves of the Meramec River while snow in drifting curtains swept slow stipples across the black water and the reeds stood up crowned in white.

Craig picked out another large stone, its imperfect facets frosted and stippled to hide the true fire in its depths.

Steel grey, stippled every few metres with a nipple-like swelling, receding to infinity.

Some feed on plant stems and the undersides of leaves with their piercing-sucking mouthparts, causing stippling or yellowing of the leaves, which then drop off.

Lamplight stippled the battlements of the distant city walls as well as the nearer palace walls that ringed the hill on which the two palaces stood.

Stepping up close, working with the pigments, or pressing my flesh against the stippled layers of dried paint, I entered a psychological realm of great calm and reassurance.

On a gentle rise stippled with pinons, a radiologist had strung wires on the branches and was hanging white mice from the wires by their tails to determine the effect of the blast on living organisms.

A west wind picked up, and all morning the clouds came in, a few stipples at first, then a sky-spanning reach of them, like a spill of clabbered milk against a blue dish.

Bouquets of scarlet bougainvillea were stippled across a curving white entrance, before which stood the empty marble basin of a fountain.

It was a warm day, with dark chem clouds stippling the tops of the Sierras.