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
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
Across the road from Camp Radiant, behind a church spattered with shrapnel damage, a corner of Bucha is slowly showing renewed signs of life.
From BBC • May 15, 2022
His messy brown hair was spattered with rain and mud.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
