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
English was the common language, spattered with classical Latin.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 16, 2024
The candles in the chandeliers overflowed and spattered wax on the clothes of the fancy people below.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2023
Somewhat gentler are the near-abstract “Harmonious Binaries,” spattered with white paint, and “The Last Look at the Homeland,” in which a girl looks over her shoulder.
From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2022
The Gryffindor Quidditch team, spattered with mud from head to foot, was gathered around his bed.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
