spattering

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You’ll also hear a larger, darker woofling from the tailpipes, and phlegmy, spattering cough as the rpm fall off.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

It’s a veritable Jackson Pollock spattering of woes.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

A spattering of anti-war protests was quickly stamped out.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025

And whether a ring, a miniature moon, or some other scenario, spattering our planet with space rocks may have created conditions that set up what we think of as “modern” oceans.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2024

There were lights all down the Union line, a few horses moving, here and there a bugle, lights in the cemetery, a spattering of lights in Gettysburg.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara