spatter

Example Sentences

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“We don’t have photographs, site plans, measurements, the recovery of projectiles, blood spatter analysis, all of those things we would normally get at a crime scene.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

In Alameda County, inspectors found weld spatter waste, which sometimes contains copper, along with paint mix, used wipes with primer and other hazardous waste dumped into ordinary trash containers at Tesla’s Fremont factory.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2024

For decades, organizations like the Innocence Project have worked to weed pseudoscience out of courts — microscopic hair analysis, blood spatter analysis and bite mark evidence have all been used to wrongly convict defendants.

From New York Times • May 15, 2023

In the defense’s defense, there isn’t strong physical evidence—blood spatter on clothing, fingerprints or footprints, or a definitive murder weapon—tying Alex Murdaugh to the killings.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2023

My father would be concentrating on the road, since he didn’t want his Ford Mustang to be near any other car that might come too close and spatter a pebble up at the chrome.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt