Examples of pock in a Sentence

Noun noticed strange pocks on his torso Verb one of the many craters that pock the moon's surface

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun 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 Philip wore the handkerchiefs folded into squares and tucked into the breast pock of his suits. — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 18 Apr. 2021 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 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 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 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 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 The door opposite the apartment was pock-marked with bullet holes. — Bianca Padró Ocasio, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 June 2018 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb The Defenders Black strafe marks pock a prop plane that sits on the runway of Mykolaiv’s small international airport. — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022 More than 100 lakes pock the dense woods of Itasca. — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 July 2021 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 The Grant and Harding administrations were pocked with cronyism, corruption, and scandal. — Jonathan Stevenson, The New York Review of Books, 15 May 2020 The lake’s receding water left behind a crazy plain of sprawling cocklebur fields pocked with silty potholes. — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 10 Mar. 2020 In mid-November, the moms moved into the Magnolia Street house and got help from volunteers to repair the sagging interior, stock the kitchen, and drape a tarp over the roof, pocked with holes. — E. Tammy Kim, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2020 That began an illustrious college career pocked with triple-doubles. — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020 From the start, the new taxes were pocked with loopholes. — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2019 See More

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