(1) Like a great many people in what was at that time an industrial country, I grew up in a landscape that was interestingly pockmarked with successive eras of exploitation, and all of it so commonplace that beyond a mention of its origins, Watt's engine or Crompton's spinning mule, it never found a place in the history books.
(2) Those sorts of failures and might-have-beens have pockmarked Kerry’s record, and the rebukes he has faced have at times been scathing.
(3) Guantánamo has been a pockmark on our society ever since it opened.
(4) Buildings are battered and pockmarked or floors pancaked on top of each other.
(5) Chanting battle hymns, they jogged past buildings still pockmarked by clashes with US forces who occupied the area in 2008 and had fought running battles with the Mahdi army for most of the nine years that they remained in Iraq.
(6) In June, she told the Guardian that she could sometime see Azeri soldiers on patrol from her window , and stray bullets have left pockmarks on her house.
(7) Many buildings are pockmarked from heavy weapons fire.
(8) Among the missing pieces of fuselage were sections of the upper left side around the business class cabin, which were pockmarked with shrapnel holes and covered in soot, presumably from the detonation of the explosives.
(9) Away from the city, green gives way to bush, then desert pockmarked with shrubs.
(10) The second bomb exploded outside Gate H at 9.30pm – the signage at the entrance remains pockmarked – with footage of the game showing a startled Patrice Evra wincing as the boom reverberated around the arena.
(11) Colic's district – built in the past 20 years and largely populated by ethnic Serbs who fled other parts of the former Yugoslavia during the war – sits beside the river Bosna on a plain beneath a pockmarked medieval fortress shrouded in forest.
(12) Nice’s waterfront was all but deserted on Friday, beaches empty, cafes abandoned, the esplanade cordoned off and the white truck used in the attack visible from a distance, its windscreen pockmarked with bullet holes and its front buckled.
(13) All 16 patients were treated by simple excision of the bridges and pockmark edges with a curved iris scissors.
(14) Bush’s first war will now be a pockmark on another president’s legacy, and last into yet a third leader’s term.
(15) If Trump could win points there, just imagine what happened among the people who have no fealty to movement conservatism, who have nurtured a sustained rage at being betrayed or ignored by its bromides , who have been told that conservatism is good for them even as they have seen the middle class begin to crater around them like a suburban Florida neighborhood pockmarking with sinkholes during a long drought.
(16) Pictures taken by a Reuters photographer who sailed to the BRP Sierra Madre with other media in March last year show a pockmarked vessel covered in rust, sitting on the permanently submerged reef but listing slightly to one side.
(17) There seems to be a bit of a lull in proceedings (if you try to ignore the fact that the whole day is one big lull pockmarked by occasional flurries of activity).
(18) Today it stands pockmarked and partly-destroyed by the frequent attacks.
(19) Nevertheless, it was all too apt that it came from a defensive mix-up: this was a game pockmarked by errors.
(20) The walls are pockmarked with bullet holes and scrawled with chest-thumping graffiti: “Islamic State forever” and “Khorasan” – the name of the Afghan Isis branch.
Scarred
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Scar
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors examined an eye obtained post-mortem from a patient with chronic granulomatous disease of childhood and clinically apparent chorioretinal scars.
(2) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.
(3) In spite of the presence of scar tissue following rhytidectomy, this procedure has been quite successful because of the rich blood supply in that area.
(4) Following a dosage of 300,000 IU streptokinase the lysis was stopped because of severe bleeding from the urethrotomy scar.
(5) Differences in scar depression also supported the idea of more stretching in the Dexon group.
(6) These findings support the hypothesis that the presence of FSC tissue will have an effect on the persistence of glial scar tissue in a chronic lesion site as well as limit the extent to which a new scar is formed in response to a second injury to the spinal cord.
(7) Thirty patients required a second operation to an area previously addressed reflecting inadequacies in technique, the unpredictability of bone grafts, and soft-tissue scarring.
(8) The observed clinical findings include scarring of the face and hands (83.7%), hyperpigmentation (65%), hypertrichosis (44.8%), pinched facies (40.1%), painless arthritis (70.2%), small hands (66.6%), sensory shading (60.6%), myotonia (37.9%), cogwheeling (41.9%), enlarged thyroid (34.9%), and enlarged liver (4.8%).
(9) To test this hypothesis 30 Wistar rats were subjected to laparotomy and colonic resection and treated with 5-Fluorouracil or Mitomycin C. The bursting strength of the abdominal scars and the colonic anastomotic bursting pressure revealed some interference in the rats treated with 5-Fluorouracil (Student's t test P less than 0.05) but none in the case of Mitomycin C. This preliminary study deserves to be followed up.
(10) The patient suffers little inconvenience, has a very small scar and is in hospital only a short time.
(11) Skin affected by a burn cancer is scarred, ulcerated, and often appears as erythema ab igne clinically in adjacent skin.
(12) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
(13) The ensuing scars were similar with respect to scar width and the amount of collagen in the scar.
(14) Several stages in its histogenesis may be discerned: I. focal necroses of hepatic cells associated with their invasion with lister Listeria; 2. appearance of cellular elements around the foci of necroses with subsequent formation of granulemas consisting mainly of leucocytes and lymphoid cells; 3. development of necrobiotic changes in the central areas of granulemas with concomitance of exudative processes; 4. organization of necrotic foci with subsequent scarring.
(15) This method keeps the fracture closed and leaves no scar.
(16) Regarding ureters read as true positives on indirect study, if that ureter has ever shown reflux at any time, or if it drained a scarred kidney specificity was improved to 97% without changing the sensitivity.
(17) Both acquired defects were covered by two different cross-finger flap techniques, despite extensive scarring of the adjacent finger.
(18) After the completion of rejection reaction, inflammation finally induced scarring or necrosis of the tracheal allograft, resulting in asphyxia or perforation.
(19) Autopsy findings showed no scar formation of his testes, and the primary lesion was finally diagnosed to be in the anterior mediastinum.
(20) Following this combination procedure the patients were relieved completely of obstructive jaundice and right upper quadrant pain, leaving only small trocar insertion scars made during the short course of hospitalization.