“Henrietta sat in heavy silence, making a dotted pattern with her pen on the clean blotting paper.”

“It showed a dotlike or globoid expression in the perinuclear region, with no expression in stromal tissue.”

“Like many artists of the moment, Mr. Moix makes things large and strange out of very small dotlike marks and units.”

“From the R8 sports car to the recently unveiled A8 sedan, Audi headlights are accented with strings of dotlike LEDs, faintly suggestive of holiday decorations.”