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
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
The crowd, full of good feeling, replete with food and drunk with the music, vicariously excited, pressed round, eagerly thrusting over their heads garland after garland of flowers; the earth was spattered with petals.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
