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
On one residential street, two machines about 20 yards apart are spattered with a bright white substance.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
The candles in the chandeliers overflowed and spattered wax on the clothes of the fancy people below.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2023
If the tiles get spattered, clean them with a sponge moistened with water, or water with a little hand dishwashing detergent — just as you’d clean a ceramic tile backsplash.
From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 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
