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Examples of speckle in a Sentence
a ripe banana with lots of brown speckles
the cat has a speckle of orange right at her whiskers
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The scanner projects invisible laser light on the target, then analyzes the speckle patterns that are bounced back with its depth camera.
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Flashy Butter Oak is dazzling — its large, tender green leaves sport artful speckles of red.
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Shortly after the xx wrapped its set on Saturday, hundreds of tiny speckles of light filled the sky.
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The views from the top of the highest part (664 feet) are magnificent, with lush green mountains flanked by blue water, rich jungles, and winding trees and speckles of bright flowers.
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DAKAR, Senegal — Fist-size and lumpy, the rock that a team of miners came upon recently in the diamond fields of Sierra Leone was orange with red speckles that looked like tiny droplets of palm oil.
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Starting in the late 1960s, astronomers saw a possible way forward: a technique called speckle imaging that could reach beyond the normal telescopic limits.
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Origin and Etymology of speckle
Middle English; akin to Old English specca
Examples of speckle in a Sentence
speckled the cookies with colored sugar
First Known Use of speckle
15th century
SPECKLE Defined for English Language Learners
SPECKLE Defined for Kids
noun
speck·le
\ˈspe-kəl\
Definition of speckle for Students
: a small mark (as of color)
verb
speck·le
Definition of speckle for Students
speckled
;speckling
: to mark or be marked with small spots
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