Example Sentences

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He renders the tropical wilderness in thin, brittle linework, while blotty sponged black ink fills out coarse tree bark and the shadows cast by leafy vegetation.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2019

His "postcards"—melancholy vistas of flatland and horizon, with blotty little figures gazing at some manifestation of Nature or Culture, a pyramid or a rubber stamp masquerading as the moon—are philosophical landscapes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Town Guard who had questioned the officer about the difference of time, deciphered the blotty writing on the slip of paper pinned round the stem of the new briar-root.

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard

If at this instant it be thrown into water, it passes immediately to a Prussian blue, losing, at the same time, however, much of its sharpness, and sometimes indeed becoming quite blotty and confused.”

From Photographic Reproduction Processes by Duchochois, Peter C.

Now will you excuse this blotty letter—written in bed—and accept my thanks for all the good your book has done me.

From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by Prentiss, George L.