blotch

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

When consumptive Satine coughs into her handkerchief, she reveals the red blotch as any terminal operatic heroine knows to do.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2022

But Otte held them to four runs, with just a three-run fifth by Kennewick a major blotch on the right-hander’s night.

From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2022

Vineyards at harvest time are a popular subject for photographers and romantics, but those beautiful red leaves betray a disease called red blotch virus.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2022

The gasoline made a dark, oily blotch on Lexie’s flowered comforter, on Trip’s pillow, on Moody’s plaid sheets.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

Some populations are dark green with obvious blotches, making them fairly easy to distinguish from the redtail pit viper, which is bright green and unmarked.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026

“If it does easily, you may not need as much water. If it’s difficult to come out, or comes out in blotches, use the wet method.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

And the sagging cheeks, with those purplish blotches.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

My notebook pages are wet and blotched by water!

From Salon ● May 28, 2025

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

Many varieties contain petals blotched with multiple colors that surround a rich, chocolate brown center.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2021

Her face was blotched and inflamed by the flying ice, her eyes almost swollen shut.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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 coloured picture will convey a far better idea as to the colouring and blotching of the flowers than any printed description.

From Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air by John Weathers

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