How to Use pock in a Sentence

pock

1 of 2 noun
  • The cars, parked next to a basketball goal, are riddled with pock marks.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The pustules had invaded the whole face, so that one pock touched the next….
    — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
  • In the house where Mehsud died, blood colours the floor but bullet-holes pock only one wall.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The door opposite the apartment was pock-marked with bullet holes.
    — Bianca Padró Ocasio, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 June 2018
  • Philip wore the handkerchiefs folded into squares and tucked into the breast pock of his suits.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The suspect is described as having curly dark hair in a ponytail, a large pointy nose and pock marks on the right side of his face.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2018
  • A couple days to two weeks later, a red rash of round pocks erupts on the skin’s surface where the pain and itching occurred.
    — Health.com, 1 May 2017
  • The move will increase annual revenue for teams at the expense of a slight aesthetic pock-mark.
    — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 15 May 2017
  • Many have irregular or pock-marked shapes, while others have a smooth crust from their time burning up in our atmosphere.
    — Adam Lark, The Conversation, 16 June 2026
  • Many have irregular or pock-marked shapes, while others have a smooth crust from their time burning up in our atmosphere.
    — Adam Lark, Scientific American, 28 June 2026
  • In more corrosive water, the once-pristine shells become flaked and pock-marked—a harbinger of an early death.
    — WIRED, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Unlike the traditional hardbat, the sponge rubber silenced the pock of the ball hitting the racket.
    — Elizabeth Blair, NPR, 25 Dec. 2025
  • There's a large main pocket for books and notebooks, plus internal pockets accessories, along with a zippered outer pock for quick-grab items.
    — Kylee McGuigan, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2022
  • But don’t get carried away and string together too many loud, aggressive, irregular clucks and pocks that can drown out a turkey’s gobble.
    — Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Oftentimes, eggplant in the supermarket is simply old — pock-marked, faded, shriveled, sad.
    — Susan Russo, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The satisfying pock of paddle on ball, battling through long rallies, and breaking into dance moves with Chrissy after a perfect slam.
    — Gali Kronenberg, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Each pock on the fruit’s exterior is called an achene, and each achene is an individual fruit with a corresponding seed in the interior.
    — Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2014
  • Police searched the immediate area but did not locate the man, who is described as between 5-foot-7 and 6-foot, with a medium build and noticeable pock-marks on his face.
    — Anna Marum, OregonLive.com, 12 Jan. 2018
  • The field of Alzheimer’s research has been pock-marked with failures after failure of clinical trials—in part, researchers now believe, because the models weren’t telling them the full story.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2020
  • His time at the county has been tumultuous -- pock-marked by criminal convictions and non-prosecution agreements among top-level staff, and tragedy at the county jail, where eight inmates died in the span of a year.
    — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2021
  • Inoculation involved taking pus from a pock of someone with a not-very-severe case of smallpox, making a cut in the arm of the person to be inoculated, and rubbing the pus into the cut.
    — ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026
  • Inoculation involved taking pus from a pock of someone with a not-very-severe case of smallpox, making a cut in the arm of the person to be inoculated, and rubbing the pus into the cut.
    — Diana Gitig, ArsTechnica, 30 May 2026
  • Sporting a bushy beard, a corncob pipe, and a face riddled with pocks and crags, Wake looks like a cross between Captain Birdseye and Trotsky and sounds like a cartoon pirate.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Leading the night’s awards categories was Post Malone, who earned the most nods with seven nominations, including artist of the year, collaboration of the year and favorite male artist – pop/pock.
    — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 24 Nov. 2019
  • One particular bummer is that the textures applied to human faces originally split the difference between realistic and exaggerated, particularly in pock-marking the cheeks and jawlines of those who live in the game's corporate-run dystopia.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 4 June 2020

pock

2 of 2 verb
  • Her scalp is bald and pocked with blisters.
    — Erin Entrada Kelly, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
  • The far side is more varied and pocked with craters than the flatter near side.
    — Matthew W. Chwastyk, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • There are blue mountains in the distance, and dark earth pocked like the moon.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2019
  • No one was injured, but the school’s front door has been pocked by bullet holes.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
  • More than 100 lakes pock the dense woods of Itasca.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 July 2021
  • Two bullet holes pocked the driver's side door, two more on the rear trunk area and one in the front windshield.
    — Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2017
  • Our conversation, which took place over four days, was pocked with hours of silence.
    — Gemma Sieff, Harper's Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Outside, potholes pocked the parking lot and deep splits formed in warped sidewalks.
    — Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 13 Apr. 2023
  • What starts in the clouds as snow can fall as sleet, rain, freezing rain, or even graupel (snowflakes pocked with rime ice).
    — Geoff Fox, Slate Magazine, 3 Jan. 2018
  • The pavement is pocked with softball-sized divots that could trip up a walker or a stroller wheel.
    — Sammy Caiola, sacbee.com, 12 June 2017
  • Today, a chain-link fence wraps around the historic landmark pocked with peeling paint.
    — Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Ruts pocked the permafrost gravel road, scars from dark brutal winters.
    — Andrew W. Lehren, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Everything anyone has ever built in this city is pocked with bullet holes.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Esquire, 23 Mar. 2017
  • After years of battering, the garage door looks as pocked as the lunar surface.
    — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • For years, lunar scientists have been intrigued by pits and holes that pock the surface of the moon.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The vessel was a crude metal sphere pocked with tiny quartz windows, akin to finger holes in a bowling ball.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
  • Chris lived in a two-bedroom apartment, the carpet pocked with cigarette burns.
    — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Changing entrenched habits tends to be a long and arduous process, a path pocked with potholes and detours.
    — Ana Veciana-Suarez, miamiherald, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Errol’s rolling links, which once had lush greens and fairways, are now dry and brown and pocked by bull thistles and other prickly weeds.
    — Stephen Hudak, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The tournament is pocked with teams that don’t belong, as proved by Friday’s results.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
  • More than 30 people somehow cram each night into a next-door room under a roof pocked with bullet holes.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The fictional building’s basement walls — pocked with bullet holes and smeared with blood — bore witness to their demise.
    — Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 9 July 2018
  • The road from Quartzsite to the site of this year’s RTR was pocked with muffler-scraping craters.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
  • In the dining room that also opens from the family room, more bullet holes pocked the wall and a hall leading away to the center of the house.
    — Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 22 May 2018
  • Misurata, nestled on Libya’s coast 116 miles east of Tripoli, is pocked with the scars of drones.
    — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Scientists estimate ages on the Moon and the rocky planets from the number of craters that pock their surfaces.
    — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Graffiti pocks the exterior brick walls and there is substantial damage to the roof.
    — Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Beyond that, Arizona's history over the last three decades has been pocked with racist episodes that have at times put it in the national spotlight.
    — María Cortés González, azcentral, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The rear window on the driver's-side and front window on the passenger's side were shattered, and apparent bullet holes pocked the rear driver's side of the car.
    — Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Swartz reached into his pocked and handed Cruz-Mendez an empty magazine, Cruz-Mendez said.
    — Rafael Carranza, azcentral, 22 Mar. 2018

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