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

But the second image included a big blotch, a blast zone of disturbed dust radiating outward more than 10 miles that had not been in the first image.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 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

Flies, dun or grey, or black, marked like orcs with a red eye-shaped blotch, buzzed and stung; and above the briar-thickets clouds of hungry midges danced and reeled.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

A new study provides the first worldwide map of such regions, which show up on every continent except Antarctica like giant, angry skin blotches.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024

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

She didn’t have freckles or the pimples and blotches that Darlene Roberts had, who was three desks in front of her.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

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

Crow's hands trembled, her face blotched with hate.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

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 Weathers, John

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 Darwin, Charles