How to Use mottled in a Sentence

mottled

adjective
  • Its mottled color looks great over the green leaf as well.
    — Dr. Matthew Lisy, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2026
  • All sticky floors, brown mottled tables and nasty padded chairs.
    — Rebecca Lowe, New York Times, 14 May 2025
  • Four pairs of mottled ducks flew overhead, all within range.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Crowson also shot his first mottled duck.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The geckos’ eyes appear to blend in with the rest of the mottled pattern.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 July 2024
  • Where the original was shiny and bright, this one is a mottled cartoon.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Deep frostbite is the next stage, in which the skin can appear blue and mottled, and numb to pain and cold.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The stones’ gray color and mottled clarity were seen as flaws.
    — Abigail Covington, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The foliage turns a pretty mottled reddish hue in fall.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The foliage turns a pretty mottled reddish hue in fall.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Sandra, too, is committed to the truth, the mottled kind that artists know.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Its fur was the mottled grey and russet brown of autumn leaves, the tip of its tail black, as if dipped in paint.
    — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
  • In April, the mottled green and brown leaves of the trout lily, start peering through the forest floor.
    — Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Inside the old asylum, plaster peeled from mottled walls and holes gaped in the ceiling.
    — Jen Rose Smith, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
  • As the metaphorical curtain was drawn, the stage was set with four angled walls of mottled gray.
    — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 24 Aug. 2022
  • This tree has a beautiful white, mottled bark, similar to birch trees.
    — Erin Hayes Burt, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
  • Keep your furry friend warm this winter with this cozy turtleneck sweater made from mottled gray-black fabric.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Of the mottled varieties, both species tend to be lighter underneath.
    — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 14 Sep. 2023
  • An hour later, Crowson shot a stunning mottled duck.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 18 Dec. 2025
  • As the meat nears ready, Harout rips open a package of mottled lavash and slides out a flat piece of bread about 3 feet long.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • This plant has the most eye-catching leaves in the garden thanks to its mottled multi-color patterns.
    — Southern Living, 1 July 2021
  • Out of the depths, a hideous, shark-like creature with mottled gray skin and bulging eyes emerges, and begins slinking towards me.
    — Kris Fordham, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Spider mites cause yellow mottled leaves and reduced vigor.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 10 June 2026
  • The grey ash trees and their mottled plumage were as one with each other, curving and branching to form a ceiling overhead.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
  • In the winter, their mottled brown feathers give way to snowy white plumage, which helps camouflage them against the powder.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
  • The mottled surface of the mushrooms soaked up the sauce and added a different dimension of chew to the dish.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The mottled glass cold cup is another pretty option that’s beach-inspired.
    — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 25 June 2024
  • They’re seated behind a tabletop, a brushy plane of pale and mottled yellow that takes up almost half the picture.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Marvel The hue also pops up in the primary bath shower, which is sheathed in mottled pink quartzite slab.
    — Alyssa Bird, ELLE Decor, 7 Sep. 2023
  • There was a mushroom one with long fringes that bounced trippily; there was a mottled sequin ribcage with a tulle exoskeleton.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Mar. 2022

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