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pockmarked

/ ˈpɒkˌmɑːkd /

adjective

  1. abounding in pockmarks


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When Louise and Bibi returned to their home, they found it strewn with ammunition and pockmarked with mortar craters.

Several small, one-story homes were pockmarked with deep gouges from ricochets and direct gunfire.

The cracked, creased and pockmarked streets again made dancing harder.

A bright blue storefront, heavily pockmarked with gunfire, is the backdrop to a wrecked, bullet-bashed car.

Britain, it is clear, is a country pockmarked by deprivation and want.

He was a seedy individual, with a face that was horribly pockmarked.

Behind the counter stood a girl of eighteen—not pretty, being pockmarked, but brisk and pleasant.

Nikolay's pockmarked face became covered with red patches, and his little gray eyes were steadfastly fixed upon the officer.

In every direction stretched an undulating expanse of whitish-grey rock, brittle in substance and pockmarked by weather.

A man with eyelashes like his always speaks to any woman alone who isn't pockmarked and toothless.

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