Example Sentences

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The color of the surface changes blotchily with the seasons, as if vegetation were growing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now he watched the purple recede blotchily from Uncle Vernon’s face, making it look like badly mixed black currant ice cream.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling