pockmark

Object

• wall: One of his images was that child playing by the pockmarked wall.
• surface: Tiny images of dancing deities were painted on the pockmarked surface.
• skin: The only reason he would never be a leading man was his badly pockmarked skin.
• road: We set off at 7 in an ancient VW combi, soon slowing to a crawl on dirt roads pockmarked with potholes.

Converse of object

produce: The gas seepage which is believed to produce the pockmarks is probably episodic in nature and may have persisted for several thousand years.

Subject

• bullet: The timbers of this 15th century building are pockmarked by bullets thought to have been fired by the Royalists during the siege.
• hole: The center of the flat rock plateau is pockmarked by deep holes which have been carved out over the centuries to hold rain water.

Modifies a noun

formation: Processes of pockmark formation, their geometry, age and distribution, and the sources of gas in the underlying geological strata are discussed.

Modifying Another Word

still: The battlefield is still pockmarked with shell craters The red sign is very clear in its instruction: " Danger.

Noun used with modifier

seafloor: This report was prepared by Dr. Alan Judd ( University of Sunderland ), one of the world's foremost authorities on seafloor pockmarks.

Preposition: with

hole: We were moored by a big, old, brick-built warehouse, pockmarked with bullet holes and shell spatters.

Preposition: by

• bullet: The timbers of this 15th century building are pockmarked by bullets thought to have been fired by the Royalists during the siege.
• hole: The center of the flat rock plateau is pockmarked by deep holes which have been carved out over the centuries to hold rain water.