scatter rug

Example Sentences

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Tongue can be scattergun - as evident during the fifth Test against India at The Oval - but he is also a very attacking bowler.

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2025

The relationship with new Chelsea owner Toddy Boehly was uneasy from the start as the club employed a scattergun transfer policy.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2024

Mr Harris said that her "passion and wrath was not scattergun, it had a laser-like focus on calling out inequality and injustice".

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2024

Once again, it seems like the scattergun is out at Stamford Bridge.

From BBC • Aug. 14, 2024

Olive used her scattergun method of treating pleural pneumonia, and it worked.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck