How to Use piebald in a Sentence

piebald

noun
  • As soon as the piebald buck stood, Alex squeezed the trigger.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 3 Jan. 2024
  • For starters, who will be the leader of this piebald coalition?
    — John O'Sullivan, National Review, 12 Aug. 2019
  • By chance, a rare piebald deer was among the brown and grey animals.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Sofia reached for the blonde, and Anthony the piebald.
    — Blair Braverman, Outside, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Still, the current piebald has managed to survive and thrive.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The piebald deer shows a keen interest in the white pumpkin outside the house.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
  • They are all considered piebald animals, and that’s how the bald eagle got its name.
    — Orange County Register, 5 Jan. 2017
  • Speckles is the first piebald dolphin ever seen in Australia.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
  • On Tuesday, a white deer with brown patches, also known as a piebald deer, was spotted here.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Researchers observed the piebald dolphin for about 40 minutes and have not seen it again, the study said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
  • As for dogs like Sassy, piebald with mange and gnawing at the bug bites on her shins, there was no chance — none — to leave a shelter alive.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2022
  • This particular breed is an albino piebald ball python, but really, shouldn't it be called a pumpkin pie-thon?
    — Courtney Campbell, Country Living, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Only 24 cases of piebald dolphins have ever been recorded, the study said, and only six have been photographed.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Clipper Darrell is prepared for an increase in ticket prices and insists that won’t quell his piebald identity.
    — Jake Fischer, SI.com, 6 July 2019
  • Such sightings are extremely rare — one in 30,000 deer are born with albinism, but white deer can also be piebald.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Rare 'piebald' deer known for unusual markings find home with Pennsylvania family as pets.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Busby says since spying the rare deer for the first time, and being left confused and charmed by the animal's unique coat, the piebald deer has appeared around his home several more times.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The piebald deer spotted frolicking in an Oregon field last month makes average look overrated, donning a coat sprinkled with bits of white.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
  • There’s also Aurelio, a bachelor whose piebald soul mate, Birba, with her renowned nose for truffles, is his greatest joy.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Interestingly, Ibarra’s piebald catfish may not be the only one finning around in Lake Tawakoni.
    — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 9 Apr. 2022
  • This moose has regular old brown eyes, which means its unusual coloration likely stems from a recessive gene for a color variation known as piebald, which is usually white with brown spots.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017
  • The piebald genetic abnormality can create defects — three of this family’s deer becoming deaf.
    — Brian Whipkey, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Both the hemisphere-scale color variations and the local piebald patches are caused by a runaway thermal process found only on the slowly rotating Iapetus.
    — Carolyn Porco, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2017
  • On this episode, a rare piebald squirrel has been spotted in Alabama at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.
    — al, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Many residents around Madison County shared pictures and stories of their sighting of the piebald raptor and others like it on the department’s Facebook post.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The piebald deer seen in Walter Busby's doorbell camera footage, which the homeowner provided to Storyful, is primarily white, with darker spots on its flanks and ears.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Both albino and piebald moose are protected animals in parts of Canada where sightings are rare but have occurred, and legislation prohibits hunters from taking a moose that is predominantly white in color.
    — Casey Smith, National Geographic, 22 June 2017

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