These are dotted lines.
Why do some maps have dotted borders?
Rickety metal tables dotted the treed square.
The dotted lines indicate the elongation.
MR. SAKAI: Excuse me, what does the dotted line represent?
This arbitrary process fragment is denoted with the dotted box.
Country boundaries are shown on this map as dotted lines.
The valley is checkered with green farm fields and dotted with gray cities and towns.
They seemed like so many little flags dotted about the schoolroom.
One minute a verdant, terraced valley dotted with houses stretched out below.
Parrots, toucans, jaguars, and tapirs share the surrounding orchid-dotted national park.
But, there were thickly dotted symbols, and none of them he could know.
The dotted line represents the registry that may initially only be used at development time rather than at runtime.
We know inheritance is not being shown here, because the line with the arrow is dotted and not solid.
The trees grew more and more in groves, with heathy places in between, sandy, gorsy, and dotted with old yews.
Another has drawn a giant pair of scissors cutting a hole in the wall along a dotted line.
I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth and iridescent dotted lines started to form and connect everything that was in my range of vision.
The countryside around Xinfeng is dotted with hundreds of small open-pit mines into which miners pour water and chemicals, producing a sludge rich in rare earths.
That legacy remains in congregations dotted throughout the South, many of which are too small to afford a full-time rabbi.
The ancient Greeks had their list of the seven wonders, dotted in and around the Mediterranean, to aid and entertain travellers.
The United States is dotted with irradiation centers, but they are generally used to sterilize medical supplies like bandages and implants, not food.
He was weird-looking. His hair was badly cut and his clothes were ancient and dull; too-short corduroys, baggy at the knees and colour-less sweaters, dotted with fluff.
In my latest photo set, for example, I dress up in pigtails and a polka-dotted dress and play with a doll. And then I rip the doll to shreds and try to stuff myself instead.
In parts it was still green, and dotted with antelopes and warthog, but as our journey progressed, it became drier and hotter, and the nature of the occasional stops changed, too.
The day he died, he was planning to meet members of al Qaeda's Yemeni branch in Wadi Abeeda, a remote, lawless plain dotted with orange groves east of Yemen's capital.
