blotch

Her zapping turns her entire head of hair — not just a streak — shocking white à la Jean Harlow, and leaves an oddly-appealing black blotch on her cheek.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026

I also had a little red blotch of skin, but as I said, my thighs rub together, so maybe it was nothing?

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2024

Instead, the club has just painted the ones around them the same color, redacting the branding, leaving a blotch that is supposed to erase the past but acts only as a reminder.

From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2021

Ross fishes a brown leather purse out of the reject box and pulls out the lining to reveal a big blue blotch.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2021

Up ahead was another blotch of land—a saddle-shaped island with forested hills and white beaches and green meadows—just like I’d seen in my dreams.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

Elderly immigrants showed off injuries they claimed were caused by the noxious air: strange blotches on their skin, temples rubbed raw due to watery eyes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

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

Bartram's bass display a light golden color with dark brown blotches along their sides, a mottled belly, and fins with a rosy tint.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 23, 2026

In its state of abandoned tear-down, the venue offers melodious visual rhymes: electrical cords dangling from the ceiling ape Wool’s snarls of found-wire sculpture; crumbling plaster mirrors the attitudinal blotches of his oils and inks.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

The monkey’s skin was rashy and covered with red blotches, visible through his sparse hair.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

My notebook pages are wet and blotched by water!

From Salon ● May 28, 2025

Creamy white blooms blotched with maroon centers flood the late spring garden with sweet perfume.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

An example of the founder effect is the cyclical dominance of three throat-color patterns in side- blotched lizards.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Altered taqpep genes were already known to cause blotched tabby patterns in cats, as well as king cheetahs’ unusually large spots and stripes.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 21, 2021

Mrs. Mallon’s face, always red, was blotched and swollen.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

Between those two ranges, in central Myanmar, researchers found an unusual population of green snakes with different amounts of blotching.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026

In 2005, in the same journal, Annette Upfal gave a name to the blotching of the face—idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura—and proposed that Austen had died from Hodgkin’s disease.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2017

The blotching spread until it brought about the depigmentation suddenly observed by Will White after his bath.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sulphurous fumes of the big smelter blotching the southern sky with saffron and coppery red clouds indicated that we were nearing Trail.

From Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

Each variety, whatever its parentage may have been, retained all its characters perfect, and there was no streaking or blotching of the colours, as in the foregoing plants of crossed origin.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin