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Example sentences for "dotted"

Lexicographically close words:
doth; dothe; doti; doting; dots; dotter; dotterel; dotting; dottle; dou
  1. At Oak Bluffs a city has sprung into existence on this plan, and the shores of New England are dotted with little red-roofed cottages.

  2. It is a pretty sight on a summer's evening, this green spot, dotted with moving figures sauntering up and down under the grim shadow of this picturesque ruin.

  3. Tents and marquees were pitched along the line and dotted the green of Canonicut, Rose Island, Coaster's and Goat islands.

  4. Now and then there was a grove of stunted pitch-pines on the hill-sides, and upon descending I found the hollows occupied by swamps more or less extensive, where the growth was denser and the stagnant water dotted with white blossoming lilies.

  5. From the Seamen's Monument, at the foot of which some wooden benches are placed, is seen a broad horizon, dotted with white sails.

  6. It will then be subjected to a pressure P´ which will swing the whole machine into the new position shown by the dotted lines, its course becoming x´y´.

  7. The result is that a pressure is produced which may be considered to act along the dotted line P, perpendicular to the wall.

  8. They galloped through the woodland, and over a stony waste, and came to a peopled country rich in farms and meadows, and dotted with pleasant towns.

  9. Lake Osago was a beautiful body of water, some thirty miles long, and wide in proportion; island-dotted and bordered by a rolling country.

  10. They occupied the summit of the knoll, while the seven great oaks, standing in a sort of druidical circle, dotted the smooth, sloping lawn that descended to the railroad cut.

  11. We were in an open place near those great temples at Paestum, at last, on a blank stony place dotted with spiky bushes, empty and desolate and so flat that a grove of eucalyptus far away showed to the feet of its stems.

  12. And before us from east to west stretched the many-tinted sea all dotted with little sailing-boats.

  13. Then he became aware that the planks of the middle decking were dotted with moving black specks.

  14. They made out a number of big ants, whose still postures had a certain effect of watching them, dotted about the edge of the rude embarkation jetty.

  15. It is a green rough-sided hollow, bending at the middle, touched with stone at either crest, and dotted here and there with slabs in and out the brambles.

  16. The hill on their side of the valley threw out a long, low spur and the railroad-grade driving track swept in a long curve around the spur and crossed over to the foot of a slope dotted with the digging manikins.

  17. At the rounding of the next shouldering hill the railroad grade entered a high, broad valley, the swelling hills on either side dotted with the dumps and tunnel-openings of the Copah gold-diggers.

  18. They are just dotted Swish and we got it at a sale, so it didn't cost us much.

  19. It is so commonplace and unpretentious that passers-by do not notice it; it is merely a corner of meadow dotted with apple trees--a place that needs frequent glances and a dreamy mood to understand it as the birds understand it.

  20. At one time they were scattered over the field, their white and black colours dotted everywhere, so that they seemed to hold entire possession of it.

  21. On the wiry sward the light pink of the sea-daisies (or thrift) is dotted here and there: of these gather as you will.

  22. The surface of the pond was dotted with patches of scum that had risen from the bottom.

  23. They are bounded by a copse of ash stoles and young oak trees, and the lesser of the meads is full of rush bunches and dotted with green ant-hills.

  24. Dotted lines in symmetrical perspective mark orchards that are buried and chilled in the turbid flood.

  25. The unshapely stumps of ancient pines dotted the ground, and Aristides remembered that under the solitary redwood, which of all its brothers remained still standing, one of those early pioneers lay buried.

  26. Stretches of tule land fertilized by its once regular channel, and dotted by nourishing ranchos, are now cleanly erased.

  27. Norwood Park was the adjacent estate,--a lordly domain dotted with red deer and black trunks, but scrupulously kept with graveled roads as hard and blue as steel.

  28. All the hillsides round Chinese cities are dotted with curious stone erections in the shape of horseshoes.

  29. Growing wheat now covers the vast khaki-coloured plains I recollect dotted with roving herds of cattle.

  30. The verdant meadows stretched far away rich in the lush grass and many flowers that dotted them with touches of light.

  31. The north side of Hampden Park was a crimson-dotted mass, nearly ten thousand strong; the south side was equally banked up with blue, and the two colors ran into each other at the ends.

  32. There were white sails dotted here and there fluttering in the soft breeze.

  33. White sails were dotted here and there over the inviting surface, while along the gray, winter-worn shore the golden rifts were piled up, lending a fictitious beauty that was entrancing.

  34. Titanic stools of stone dotted barren garden slopes, where surely gods had once strolled in that far time when the stars sang and the moon was young.

  35. The great rolling country about it was thickly dotted with horses and cattle.

  36. The trees put forth their green leaves and the meadow was dotted with primroses and anemones.

  37. The oleander bushes were in full bloom beside her, behind her was the hedge to screen the garden from the street, and yonder were the loaded fig trees, while near by were the grapevines, dotted with clusters of ripe fruit.

  38. They moved on across a stretch of higher land that swept in a gentle, sage-dotted slope to the far hills.

  39. Where the mountain stream merged with a deeper stream the ground was barren and dotted with countless tracks of cattle and sheep.

  40. Then Scott looked round, and on the rocks of Cape Royds saw a red smudge dotted with thousands of little black and white figures.

  41. Certain spaces of the expanded connecting fillets of the units, are filled in with serrate or dotted lines.

  42. The dotted lines show the direction of the coil.

  43. A hundred years hence, the northwestern wilderness will be dotted with towns and criss-crossed with railways; but the big game of it will be gone, except in the preserves that are yet to be made.

  44. The rabbits died until their bodies dotted the country in thousands.

  45. Across the square there are a number of parallel dotted lines, but these, it must be understood, are not actually drawn upon the foil--their purpose will be apparent in a moment.

  46. It is these excursions of the stylus which the dotted lines are intended to represent.

  47. If that be disconnected, and the wires joined, as shown by the dotted line, a current will flow back until the oxygen and hydrogen have returned into the solution again.

  48. A moment later the party on the hill saw the right of the Spanish line break up as if by magic and, to their astonishment and rage, they made out that the whole plain behind was thickly dotted by fugitives.

  49. There were many fishing boats from Nivelle, Urumia, and Saint Sebastian to be seen, dotted over the sea on their left.

  50. Then, as they looked round their ranks and to the ground they had passed over, now so thickly dotted with the dark uniforms, hoarse sobs broke from them; and men who had gone unflinchingly through the terrible struggle burst into tears.

  51. The whole hillside was dotted with fire, as the French worked their way up, and the British troops on the crest fired down upon them.

  52. The bottom of the valley is dotted with craters which rise in gigantic steps; and, when Ætna is in a state of eruption, these craters pour forth fiery cascades of lava.

  53. From the height of the ramparts, one sees in the distance the blue and transparent sea, broken into ripples by the breeze, and dotted with snowy sails.

  54. His face was red, and he was dressed in dark gray clothes, a blue polka-dotted cravat giving his attire its one touch of color.

  55. The slender young oak trees were rustling in the wind; the links were dotted with players in white, and the distant flags and fluttering guidons that marked hidden putting greens.

  56. Over all the face of the lonely backwoods world was washed the high, thin green of the New Brunswick May-time, under a sky of crystal cobalt dotted with dense white fleeces.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dotted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bespangled; blotchy; dotted; freckled; patchy; peppered; pocked; pockmarked; pocky; powdered; spangled; spattered; speckled; splattered; spotted; sprinkled; stippled; studded


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dotted line; dotted lines