How to Use pockmark in a Sentence

pockmark

1 of 2 noun
  • The bullets left pockmarks in the wall.
  • Frost layers can trap air bubbles in the ice, which can work their way out as tiny pockmarks.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Similar pockmarks have been found in many other areas across the globe.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 5 June 2017
  • Police believe the person may be casing homes to see if people are home and checking car doors. The man is described as white, average build, between 6-feet 5 and 6-feet-6 , in his late 20’s or early 30’s with a ponytail and pockmarks on his face.
    — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Before, in between and since, a litany of decisions not made or gone wrong pockmarks the franchise.
    — Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The wrappers are tender at the ends, but golden and crispy at the center and dappled with pockmarks from the sauté oil.
    — Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Koch noted that these smaller pockmarks were often brighter than expected.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 7 Apr. 2026
  • For a bobsled, one tiny pockmark can cause a sled to bounce, perpetuating the problem.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Helping make the flat drawings come to life is a thick coating of pockmark-like brushstrokes on everything from faces to asphalt.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Researchers have found pockmarks on the face of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy.
    — Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Researchers have found pockmarks on the face of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy.
    — Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
  • One ball of ice shattered instantaneously, leaving behind a large pockmark on the roof.
    — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Mars used to have a lot of volcanic activity and evidence of these times remains as pockmarks around the surface of the planet.
    — Shannon Stirone, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Debris from near the plane’s cockpit was peppered with the telltale pockmarks of antiaircraft shrapnel.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Nestled among the glitzy cement-and-glass skyscrapers in the capital, Beirut, some buildings still bear the pockmarks and jagged tears of bullets and shells.
    — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • McCoy said the two noticed the old metal screen had some pockmarks and holes — evidence that over the years, people had used the screen for target practice.
    — Bill Leukhardt, courant.com, 30 June 2017
  • By midday, the system had enough data in the cloud from other GLCs running the routes that more pockmarks were being flagged on the dash.
    — Sean Evans, Robb Report, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The fossil record tells us — via distinctive Osedax burrows that pockmark bone — that whale fall communities have been around for 30 million years.
    — Riley Black, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2013
  • Spacewalking astronauts routinely observe pockmarks in the sides of the station, as if it had been hit by buck shot—the result of impact with small debris particles.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 16 Apr. 2026
  • More recent aerial views of this place of once miraculous beauty show that it is now reduced to little more than pockmarks amongst the rubble, although some survivals suggest that there is hope for future restoration.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2019
  • Anecdotal evidence is not sufficient to make a case because there are several other diseases, like chicken pox and the measles, that leave characteristic pockmark scars in their wake as well.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2016
  • The incident earned the pitcher a three-game suspension from the team and another pockmark in a career that has oscillated between spectacular and worrisome.
    — Mike Vorkunov, USA TODAY, 10 May 2017
  • Once exploded, somewhere between six hundred and two thousand feet feet below the surface, the bombs melted rock, creating vacuums that resulted in massive subsidence craters—pockmarks that look like they were made by asteroids.
    — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The improved resolution will also help scientists better understand many other deep-ocean processes, Picard explains, including landslides and pockmarks, craterlike features possibly caused by the escape of an unknown fluid or gas.
    — Terri Cook, Scientific American, 26 June 2017

pockmark

2 of 2 verb
  • That brown, pockmarked rock in the foreground is ours too.
    — Rebecca Boyle, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Dents and crevasses pockmarked her teats.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The moon’s south pole is pockmarked with craters that are thought to be filled with water ice.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The upper walls were pockmarked by car bomb fragments from bomb blasts.
    — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Glossy buildings sit next to ones pockmarked with bullet holes.
    — Time, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Her skin is cold and clammy, pockmarked with insect bites.
    — Isabel Debre, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The roadway is pockmarked with holes circled with white or pink spray paint to warn drivers.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Dead spots pockmarked the turf from where Leah, um, relieved herself.
    — Joe Jaszewski, idahostatesman, 17 Mar. 2017
  • The street signs and concrete buildings are pockmarked with bullet holes.
    — Laura Kelly, The Hill, 26 Apr. 2026
  • At first, the video feed showed little more than brown mud pockmarked by burrowing worms and snails.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The craters which pockmark the moon are formed by asteroid impacts millions of years ago.
    — Fox News, 16 Mar. 2020
  • The plaster walls were pockmarked with bullet holes and the windows boarded up.
    — Kyra Gurney, miamiherald, 7 June 2018
  • His once-handsome face was discolored and pockmarked by the poison.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The grainy, black-and-white images revealed a barren planet pockmarked with craters.
    — Mark Strauss, National Geographic, 28 Nov. 2016
  • Not far from the temple in Prey Chhor lies a rice field pockmarked with the remnants of mass graves.
    — Andrew Nachemson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Nearby blocks are pockmarked with vacant lots and crumbling structures.
    — Juan Perez Jr., chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2017
  • The Gallatin site is pockmarked with ponds that serve as storage for millions of tons of coal ash slurry.
    — Tatiana Schlossberg, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2017
  • Our truck skidded to a stop outside a 14-story building pockmarked with shell holes.
    — Ken Harbaugh, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Because these spot fires were pockmarked all over town, firefighters simply couldn’t handle them.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 14 June 2019
  • The makeup has come off, their hair is now gray and balding, their six-pack has turned into a beer gut, and their face is pockmarked with pimples.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The surface of the asteroid is pockmarked with craters believed to have been caused by a large smash the rock took in its formative years.
    — Fox News, 27 June 2018
  • Steam rises from the hot springs and fumaroles that pockmark this dormant volcano, and two small glaciers provide dazzling views.
    — National Geographic, 29 May 2019
  • But his latter years there were pockmarked by his association with Ailes.
    — Washington Post, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2018
  • College sports are pockmarked with teams that flew like Icarus, only to crash upon getting too close to the sunlight.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The Celtics, meanwhile, are surging through the playoffs with a roster pockmarked by injuries.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 5 May 2018
  • But while parts of the walls were pockmarked, the underground hospital was largely intact - the tunnels even more so.
    — Claudia Otto, CNN, 11 Apr. 2018
  • On the back of four Premier League defeats in a row and a squad pockmarked by injuries, some kind of change was required.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026
  • This dwarf planet should be pockmarked with craters up to 500 miles across, but scientists haven’t measured one even half that size.
    — Liz Kruesi, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2016
  • The past decade of American life is pockmarked with holes where consequences for wrongdoing should be.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Artists paint hockey goalie helmets, too, but those helmets are flawed canvases, pockmarked by holes, partly covered by screws and straps.
    — Chico Harlan, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018

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