scattered

"So many people are scattered around," he added.

"For the first time, we could see the whole profile rather than scattered patches."

Much of it is now a gray zone, with neither side in control and positions scattered throughout the town.

Four years older than me, he was dispatched to an American boarding school in Kodaikanal, a “hill station” scattered across the crevices of the Palani Hills, the eastern stretch of the Western Ghats mountain range.

The tendrils of the tightly strung material connect, both physically and metaphorically, the wartime experiences documented in the photocopied pages scattered about, but they also bring to mind out-of-control cell growth and cancerous disease.