splotch

Example Sentences

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About the size of my thumbprint, gray with white and black bands and a distinctive orange splotch on its wing, I almost missed it.

From National Geographic • Dec. 7, 2023

He held it defiantly, waiting for the camera to zoom in on his folded brown splotch.

From Slate • Dec. 1, 2023

The bathrooms are four port-a-potties, blue siding a splotch of color in a landscape of beaten-down squalor at the base of a flourishing grove of eucalyptus trees.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2023

A two-hour drive from the Qatari border, the region appears on Google Maps as a dark green splotch in a sea of beige, with millions of date palm trees.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022

A splotch of rouge was so thick on one cheek it looked like a third eye.

From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli