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Meanings of pocked in English

Used of paved surfaces having holes or pits.

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Examples for "pockmarked"
1
You are pockmarked; and he pressed the poor fellow for that reason.
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
2
He found himself looking at an elongated chunk of pockmarked grey granite.
Bryant & may on the loose: a peculiar crimes unit mystery
3
She brought the knife down in the middle of his pockmarked back.
The Hellbound Heart
4
He'll fling pockmarked Jell-O at you and then call it an accident.
WATER FOR ELEPHANT
5
Shrapnel pockmarked their tailgate and skipped across the roof of the cab.
The apostle
1
A drunken man sleeps right by the side of a potholed road.
Reuters
2
Ali exited onto a potholed two-lane road clogged with trucks and buses.
Layover in dubai
3
He laughed, guiding Maudie through a potholed section of the levee road.
Crucifixion river
4
The alley was unpaved, badly potholed, and about two hundred yards long.
11/22/63
5
It was dirt, badly potholed, and marked with two leaning, frost-heaved signs.
Under the dome: a novel
Usage of pocked in English
1
The plains were terribly broken and uneven, pocked with thousands of burrows.
Wizardborn
2
The veins of metallic gold did indeed seem pocked with silvery impurities.
Map of bones
3
I can hear that my conversation is strange, pocked with odd pauses.
Cleaving
4
The windows were pocked and gray, the blurred shapes of people within.
The Girls
5
Thatch or timber roofs were pocked with holes or had collapsed entirely.
Sister of the dead
6
There he sank down on the rough, pocked surface of a bench.
The Incredible Shrinking Man
7
His pocked cheeks and bristly dome would enhance his gaunt, sinister mien.
The last page
8
The pocked drawstring of skin flapping the corner of my left eye.
The Storyteller
9
Cracks raced up the bullet-pocked brick façade of Machen's like grasping hands.
IT
10
The scout dropped his hand from her hood, seeing her pocked face.
House of Bathory
11
Its streets narrow and twisting, still pocked and ruined from the war.
A monster's notes
12
Here stood dark towers, cracked domes, and cobbled streets pocked by weeds.
Spellwright
13
How could this possibly be the shell-pocked wasteland I had seen in photos?
Radio NZ
14
Casement windows have flapped and stayed open, their pocked frames empty of glass.
The world without us
15
The grim, forbidding, pocked asteroid became the site of frenzied work.
The Runaway Asteroid
16
The sooty and rain-pocked snow, banked along the pavements, showed in pale lines.
A Time of Gifts
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