blotch

It would be an unavoidable blotch at the bottom of James’ 23-season resume that otherwise is highlighted by a 3-1 comeback against the Golden State Warriors in the 2016 NBA Finals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 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

I noticed that she kept to my left so that the blotch on her face was hidden.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

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

As he recounted the odyssey, more than 20 years of practice could be charted through various blotches and burn scars on his arms.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 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

There were angry blotches of color in her cheeks, and her hands were balled into fists; she was trembling with fury.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

My notebook pages are wet and blotched by water!

From Salon ● May 28, 2025

The blotched anthias Bowling bred after the broken air conditioner are listed for $700 on his company’s website.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2022

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

Something huge...something bigger than a house and with gray, blotched skin.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

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

He was moving down the hallway, blotching like some misshapen toad in the shadowy light, lurching in his walk, that was, nevertheless, almost uncannily noiseless.

From The White Moll by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

“You just cut that stuff quick,” snarled the man rising to his feet, his face blotching red.

From The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel by Harry Gordon