: having freckles
his freckled nose
I knew this little girl. She looked like the freckled six-year-old in my mother's wallet. She felt like Pollyanna.—
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Lorene CaryExamples of freckled in a Sentence
a tanned girl with a freckled face
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Most of his clan had inherited the freckled, rabbity Kennedy looks.
—Jeffrey Eugenides, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2026
The stranger-turned-instigator is played by a freckled Elle Fanning, who joins a core ensemble that also includes Callum Turner as her love interest — with Riley Keough, Jamie Bell, and Lukas Gage as his siblings.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 27 Mar. 2026
Peppermint Patty Peppermint Patty is a freckled redhead who has a crush on Charlie Brown.
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The freckled red-haired teen and his friends have, since their first appearance in 1941, become as American as apple pie.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 18 Dec. 2025
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Jeffrey Eugenides, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2026
The stranger-turned-instigator is played by a freckled Elle Fanning, who joins a core ensemble that also includes Callum Turner as her love interest — with Riley Keough, Jamie Bell, and Lukas Gage as his siblings.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 27 Mar. 2026
Peppermint Patty Peppermint Patty is a freckled redhead who has a crush on Charlie Brown.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
The freckled red-haired teen and his friends have, since their first appearance in 1941, become as American as apple pie.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 18 Dec. 2025
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“Freckled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freckled. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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