Example Sentences
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The house’s roof, the front steps and the driveway were spattered with white blotches, as if the area had been the site of a fierce paintball battle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
After hours spent in the thick pollution-choking parts of northern Thailand, Pon Doikam gets home and blows her burning nose to find blood clots spattered across the tissue.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
Llera, who has covered crime for more than three decades, smoked a cigarette while he snapped photographs of a taxi spattered with blood.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
English was the common language, spattered with classical Latin.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
That may be so, for it is black and sea-green and spattered with sharp white bumps like barnacles.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
