splotches

Example Sentences

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The paint-spattered wooden floor is littered with pages from old newspapers, some scrumpled up, the black and white print obscured by vibrant splotches of colour.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

Even a healthy apple is susceptible to bitter pit, a disorder that marks the skin with black splotches and ruins the fruit’s flesh.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

Now we see only black-and-white drawings, faces and bodies emerging from midnight splotches of ink.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2025

And now, with her newly redone pool marred by yellow splotches where each packet dropped, Woolstion will need to pay to refinish the pool again.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2023

It looks so out of place, those red splotches on blue.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson