spattered
Example Sentences
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After hours spent in the thick pollution-choking parts of northern Thailand, Pon Doikam gets home and blows her burning nose to find blood clots spattered across the tissue.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Llera, who has covered crime for more than three decades, smoked a cigarette while he snapped photographs of a taxi spattered with blood.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024
English was the common language, spattered with classical Latin.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 16, 2024
But “Portrait” shows a face all in spattered indigo, a reference to the blue-skinned gods of Hindu tradition.
From Washington Post • May 20, 2022
His hat was gone—but his head, also grime spattered, was raised high.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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