When you lay the bag open for inspection, a heavy "pocked" plastic covers your computer in its compartment. From Wordnik.com. [Robert J. Elisberg: The Writers Workbench: Airport-Checkable Luggage] Reference
The wagon rumbled along the hoof-pocked frozen clay. From Wordnik.com. [Blind Man's Lantern] Reference
So, it'll be in his breast pocked, if you can spot it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 29, 2004] Reference
Ladysmith, but Headquarters under the stone-pocked hill. From Wordnik.com. [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference
Bright blood started coming out of the pocked man's mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
The pocked man waited by one while Iamskoy went into the shed. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
She had one leg like that of a toad, and skin pocked with boils. From Wordnik.com. [Amiaivel] Reference
Kirwill went on hitting as the pocked face got grayer and grayer. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
The door of the dacha opened and Iamskoy and the pocked man emerged. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
The pocked man saluted, got into the Volga and reversed onto the road. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
The grim, forbidding, pocked asteroid became the site of frenzied work. From Wordnik.com. [The Runaway Asteroid] Reference
The pocked man's face thrashed from side to side, blood flying like spittle. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
Beirut tour guides have made bullet-pocked buildings stops on their circuits. From Wordnik.com. [BACK FROM THE BRINK] Reference
Stevan leads me along a mortar-pocked sidewalk into one of his old classrooms. From Wordnik.com. [Vukovar: Now It's Serb City] Reference
Only 130 miles across, the tiny moon is pocked with craters and laced with ice. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2004] Reference
His skin was badly pocked from childhood acne, which had not entirely gone away. From Wordnik.com. [Release] Reference
The pocked man took the box down to the beach and poured the dust into the water. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
The pocked man dropped to his knees and discolored face, then rolled on his side. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
And yet, at this café in a shell-pocked building, Tawel's view was roundly ridiculed. From Wordnik.com. [In Gaza City, Muted Hopes for Obama] Reference
But history is pocked with long periods when it's tough to scratch out a capital gain. From Wordnik.com. [Rethinking Buy-And-Hold] Reference
Soldiers, police and elite forces crowd outside a bullet-pocked burning apartment building. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 22, 2007] Reference
She has shot up her toe with Novocain so many times that it's pocked with black needle spots. From Wordnik.com. [The Sound Of The Fury] Reference
Nijaz Redzovic, 23, lies in agony on a soiled bed in Sarajevo's shell-pocked Kosevo Hospital. From Wordnik.com. [The Strategy: Accept Defeat] Reference
He was closer still, the web becoming an expanding grid pocked with dark and geometric holes. From Wordnik.com. [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference
It was a picture of a swirling, star-pocked nebula, from the vantage point of an airless rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Another restaurant, The Centrale, is located in a bullet-pocked building, until recently abandoned. From Wordnik.com. [Funky Towns] Reference
These slights were small compared to the AIDS boycotts and bombings that pocked the nation at the time. From Wordnik.com. [On the Front Lines of AIDS] Reference
As Tenner's hearing concluded, the trucker, his face still pocked by pellet wounds, shuffled forward to speak. From Wordnik.com. [Pondering Death Row] Reference
Afghanistan is pocked with abandoned villages -- their crumbling mud walls reminiscent of archeological sites. From Wordnik.com. ['My Hopes Have Turned To Dust'] Reference
Iraq is pocked with 12,000 registered archeological sites, but there are fewer than 2,000 guards to protect them all. From Wordnik.com. [Mess O’Potamian Art] Reference
Through much of Diyala, mounds of rubble and pocked buildings testify to the toughness of the battle to roust Al Qaeda in Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [After Al Qaeda] Reference
The taxi driver raced his aging Mercedes through downtown Beirut, past bullet-pocked ruins and new steel and glass office towers. From Wordnik.com. [Letter From Beirut] Reference
As you get out of the city, where much of the fighting occurred, most of the houses are bullet-pocked hulks or charred skeletons. From Wordnik.com. ['Hell In A Cold Place'] Reference
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