splotches
Example Sentences
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The paint-spattered wooden floor is littered with pages from old newspapers, some scrumpled up, the black and white print obscured by vibrant splotches of colour.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
Even a healthy apple is susceptible to bitter pit, a disorder that marks the skin with black splotches and ruins the fruit’s flesh.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
Now we see only black-and-white drawings, faces and bodies emerging from midnight splotches of ink.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2025
And now, with her newly redone pool marred by yellow splotches where each packet dropped, Woolstion will need to pay to refinish the pool again.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2023
“I’ve...I’ve been subject to them lately. I want to...to congratulate you, of course. I’m very glad—” The inexpertly applied rouge made a pair of nasty red splotches upon her chalk-white face.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
