Example Sentences

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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

On one residential street, two machines about 20 yards apart are spattered with a bright white substance.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 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

But “Portrait” shows a face all in spattered indigo, a reference to the blue-skinned gods of Hindu tradition.

From Washington Post • May 20, 2022

His long, bushy beard collected more stems as it brushed the countertop, and his shirt and pants were spattered with whatever Babulya was furiously stirring in the pot.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack