scatter
verb (used with object)
to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals.
scatteringly
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a word derived from
scatter.
Example Sentences
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Shakespeare has been but scatteringly surveyed this season by the more earnest theatre followers.
From Time Magazine Archive
We halted under the shade of some cottonwoods, with which the stream is wooded scatteringly.
From The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources by John Charles Frémont
P Some Horse-guards of Tillyes: layd scatteringly here and there all along the river from Rain to Augsburg.
From The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress by Mason Jackson
Those of his party came scatteringly from right and left, gathering about him; and the bachelors advanced in a body, led by the head squire.
From Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
The rain-drops fell now but scatteringly, the last of the shower; the sun was breaking out, and the green world was all in a glitter of wet leaves.
From The Old Helmet, Volume I by Susan Warner
