Noun : a tabletop full of pockmarks. From Dictionary.com.
He said government data collection projects are often "pockmarked" with omissions and outright errors. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
"It's a pockmarked landscape with mines going off.". From Wordnik.com. [So Why Is No One Cheering?] Reference
He glared at her, his pockmarked face twisted with hatred. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
He is a tall, thin Chinese northerner with a pockmarked face. From Wordnik.com. [China's Growing Holy War] Reference
The pockmarked man watched from the end of a long aisle of TVs. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
Two ugly pockmarked f-- kers "" Now I speak very little German. From Wordnik.com. [An American In Berlin] Reference
He is a tall, thin Chinese with buzz-cut hair and a pockmarked face. From Wordnik.com. [China Wakes Up A Tiger] Reference
It just floated there grey and directionless in his pockmarked head. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Pompeii ii] Reference
There's a highway that runs right through my district that is pockmarked. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2009] Reference
On the other hand, this general evaluation is pockmarked with exceptions. From Wordnik.com. [Where's The Light?] Reference
Past the Ministry of Information, pockmarked by shells of a bygone battle. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2001] Reference
Remy's eyes were black and dead, his ruddy pockmarked face expressionless. From Wordnik.com. [Murderer's Road] Reference
And you also have to remember, look at the moon, it's pockmarked with craters. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2009] Reference
Daniel was sitting with his father, wearing this shirt, pockmarked by shrapnel. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 17, 2006] Reference
It's as worn as a sand castle, and pockmarked with holes from that helicopter's missiles. From Wordnik.com. [For The U.S., Cat And Mouse In Taliban Heartland] Reference
Castillo yelled for them to reload as he inspected the pockmarked and spider-veined glass. From Wordnik.com. [Consent to Kill]
Fooaltiye was in his face, his emaciated and pockmarked limbs seeming to enclose Parlabane. From Wordnik.com. [Boiling a Frog]
"Tell them," they badgered, pressing around him outside his house, pockmarked with bullets. From Wordnik.com. [A Balkan Beirut] Reference
We've seen hundreds of civilians literally with their bodies pockmarked by shrapnel wounds. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2006] Reference
She could see only the empty buildings and the cracked and pockmarked surface of the empty road. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
But there was nothing of the kind, nothing but sand, pockmarked from countless feet and the wind. From Wordnik.com. [Dexter in the dark]
The better businesses are in pockmarked concrete structures topped with rusting sprouts of rebar. From Wordnik.com. [Economies Go Underground] Reference
PENHAUL: Eight-year-old Palestinian Hamad Saleh (ph) is pockmarked by shrapnel and shot in the leg. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2009] Reference
We know that, prior to the war in Afghanistan, there were places pockmarked with al Qaeda training camps. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2002] Reference
SAN MIGUEL: What you had told me -- if that wasn't pockmarked, this could have been re-used on another tile mission, right?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2003] Reference
Now the entire landscape is pockmarked with holes the size of a water well, holes barely large enough for a man to squeeze into. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2006] Reference
But Carswell's record as a judge was pockmarked with reversals by higher courts, and he'd once given a speech embracing white supremacy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 09, 2006] Reference
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