Sentences with phrase «holes pockmarking»

With up to a few dozen holes pockmarking each of its leaves, the Swiss cheese plant (genus Monstera, pictured) is aptly named.

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Now researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have examined 16 sperm whale skeletons collected since 1870 and found pockmarks and erosion in the bones of adult whales.

I repeatedly drove the test truck over a badly paved railroad crossing and on a dirt road pockmarked with holes.

Now she uses the material as a canvas — distressed, stitched, bleached, even pockmarked with holes large enough to allow a glimpse of the wooden frame beneath.

Millions of these holes, generally ranging from the width of a pencil to the width of a garbage can lid, pockmark ice sheets in a Swiss cheese - like pattern around the world.