blotch

Her zapping turns her entire head of hair — not just a streak — shocking white à la Jean Harlow, and leaves an oddly-appealing black blotch on her cheek.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026

I also had a little red blotch of skin, but as I said, my thighs rub together, so maybe it was nothing?

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2024

At-home stain removal comes with many risks: setting that wine blotch forever, rubbing a hole in your favorite shirt, making dye bleed.

From Washington Post ● May 17, 2022

Ross fishes a brown leather purse out of the reject box and pulls out the lining to reveal a big blue blotch.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2021

Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

The house’s roof, the front steps and the driveway were spattered with white blotches, as if the area had been the site of a fierce paintball battle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

As he recounted the odyssey, more than 20 years of practice could be charted through various blotches and burn scars on his arms.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

But other populations are bright green and lack blotches, making them look almost identical to the redtail pit viper.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026

“If it does easily, you may not need as much water. If it’s difficult to come out, or comes out in blotches, use the wet method.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

He was a teenager, with blotches of flesh-colored Clearasil scattered over his face.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

My notebook pages are wet and blotched by water!

From Salon ● May 28, 2025

At least two other threatened species — the Gulf sturgeon and yellow blotched map turtle — also occupy the Pearl darter’s designated critical habitat and will benefit from the protections.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

His books sell so well that even the pirated copies still circulate widely, disseminating his trademark wit and wry, earthy humor with uneven margins and blotched text.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

An example of the founder effect is the cyclical dominance of three throat-color patterns in side- blotched lizards.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

“But how, I cannot say. “Ask him\” shrieked Filch, turning his blotched and tearstained face to Flarry.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

Between those two ranges, in central Myanmar, researchers found an unusual population of green snakes with different amounts of blotching.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026

In 2005, in the same journal, Annette Upfal gave a name to the blotching of the face—idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura—and proposed that Austen had died from Hodgkin’s disease.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2017

The blotching spread until it brought about the depigmentation suddenly observed by Will White after his bath.

From Time Magazine Archive

Where the shade stopped abruptly, and beyond lay white moonlight with the ranch buildings blotching it here and there, he stopped and waited until Good Indian stood close beside him.

From Good Indian by B. M. Bower

Each variety, whatever its parentage may have been, retained all its characters perfect, and there was no streaking or blotching of the colours, as in the foregoing plants of crossed origin.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin