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How to use the word dotted in a Sentence?

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Such nesting colonies would have been a sight to see back in the Cretaceous where the landscape would have been dotted by a huge number of large dinosaur nests.

Darla Zelenitsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But people need to understand that the amount of data right now that shows a high degree of effectiveness and a high degree of safety is more than we've ever seen with emergency use authorization. So these vaccines are as good as officially approved, with all the I's dotted and the Ts crossed. It hasn't been done yet because the FDA has to do certain things, but it's as good as done.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They show miniature flares across the surface of the Sun, which look like campfires that are millions of times smaller than the solar flares that we see from Earth, dotted across the surface, these small flares might play an important role in a mysterious phenomenon called coronal heating, whereby the Sun's outer layer, or corona, is more than 200 - 500 times hotter than the layers below.

David Long

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Dotted across the surface, these small flares might play an important role in a mysterious phenomenon called coronal heating, whereby the Sun's outer layer, or corona, is more than 200 - 500 times hotter than the layers below.

David Long

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Philippine Sea is open ocean, while the South China Sea is dotted with competing air and sea space claims.

Carl Schuster

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We haven't dotted the i's and crossed the t's. But conceptually, I think we're there.

Chuck Schumer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's a fact (his directorship and fees) and not made up. It should be investigated so that the 'i's can be dotted and the 't's crossed.

Mykola Azarov

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The issue of water availability (or the lack of it) has often been mentioned by researchers who work on Rapa Nui/Easter Island, when we started to examine the details of the hydrology, we began to notice that freshwater access and statue location were tightly linked together. It wasnt obvious when walking around--with the water emerging at the coast during low tide, one doesnt necessarily see obvious indications of water. File photo - Statues at Anakena Beach, Easter Island, Chile. (Photo by Eric LAFFORGUE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Places without ahu/moai showed no freshwater, he added. The pattern was striking and surprising in how consistent it was. Researchers had already identified groundwater discharge in coastal areas as a key factor in the statues placement on Easter Islands coast. In the latest stage of the research, experts examined how the availability of freshwater in certain areas was linked to the methods and means of building the statues. EASTER ISLANDS ANCIENT CIVILIZATION WAS NOT DESTROYED BY WARFARE, EXPERTS SAY Around 900 statues, or moai, are dotted around Easter Island. Circa 1955: Two ancient statues of uncertain origin on Easter Island, in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Richard Harrington/Three Lions/Getty Images).

Carl Lipo

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We really took a step back and decided that we would ensure that all Ts were crossed and Is dotted before we embark on a public sale, we wanted to make sure that we got it right.

Cam Chell

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

If the North Koreans say,' Well, hey, they only stayed within this agreement for a couple of years,' then they'll be more reluctant to sign on the dotted line, in particular to do what we're wanting them to do, and that's denuclearize.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
6 years ago

By then we will have raised the money – all the I’s will be dotted and the T’s will be crossed, i can hand them everything on a silver platter.

Lifelong New Yorker Andy Maskin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We’re not quite ready yet to sign on the dotted line, we don’t want to add a CLEAR line that then squeezes out someone else.

Patrick Hogan

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There are a number of market participants who look at increasing global risk and just connect a dotted line to lower aerospace orders.

Andrew Meister

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The city would have to be sure it’s dotted all the legal i’s and crossed all the legal t’s before it gets into assisting the use of a narcotic.

William Jacobson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

In 2009, Indonesia sent its official stance on the issue to the U.N. commission on the delimitation of the continental shelf, stating that the nine-dotted line has no basis in international law, so, nothing changes.

Rizal Sukma

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

But there is a dotted line. So a lot of Israelis... connect the dots.

Danny Ayalon

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

But they understand that this is a tedious process and they want to make sure everyone has their t's crossed and their i's dotted and to get this thing done right.

Steve Farese

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

Steven Wright

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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