Example Sentences

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As for speculation that the balloon was scattering smaller spy devices — microdrones that could observe secret targets, say — the official said there was no evidence of any such dispersion.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2023

“It’s telling us that there was scattering and depositing of material from all over the Solar System into the Oort Cloud,” says Karen Meech, a planetary scientist at the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 5, 2022

But one thing she did accomplish was scattering some of the ashes of her grandfather, who died in November. on a rock near the start of the men's downhill course.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2018

I was scattering stuff all over the parking lot.

From Reuters • Sep. 3, 2015

She couldn’t see how our family was scattering, piece by piece.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia