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
But another point of view asserts itself constantly in the results of S, and scatteringly in those of the others.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
In a few minutes the rush was over, and then they came scatteringly, singly, and by twos and threes.
From The Challenge of the North by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
The plague was hot too by the corn-chandler’s, where they sell forage to the carters; extreme hot in both Mills along the river, and scatteringly in other places, except, mark you, at the smithy.
From Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling
Some of the most frugal and industrious of the settlers of Georgia and South Carolina were French Huguenots, while along the seaboard and inland the Scotch-Irish were found scatteringly in agriculture and trade.
From Problems in American Democracy by Thames Ross Williamson
