spatter
verb (used with object)
to scatter or dash in small particles or drops.
had spattered
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past perfectof spatter.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Along the road to the quarry they became more and more marble-clad, as though this nearby opening of the earth had spattered them with its contents.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
For miles around, smaller drops of the three-mile-diameter sun had spattered and were etching deeper holes in the pitted landscape.
From The Sky Is Falling by Lester Del Rey
The reason why those little preliminary explosions took place was that a little had spattered out on the edge of the filter paper, and had dried first and exploded.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer
As it happened, young Professor Bell, industriously tinkering in his Boston lab, had spattered his trousers with acid.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
But yesterday this woman had spattered him with insults, snared him on a strained plea, bargained away his life for the body of a spy.
From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
