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

But Otte held them to four runs, with just a three-run fifth by Kennewick a major blotch on the right-hander’s night.

From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2022

But for most of the people who mill around the truck’s chosen corner in Jackson Heights, birria means tacos built on two consomé-dipped tortillas and a red blotch of fresh tomato-tomatillo salsa.

From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2019

The gasoline made a dark, oily blotch on Lexie’s flowered comforter, on Trip’s pillow, on Moody’s plaid sheets.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

In its state of abandoned tear-down, the venue offers melodious visual rhymes: electrical cords dangling from the ceiling ape Wool’s snarls of found-wire sculpture; crumbling plaster mirrors the attitudinal blotches of his oils and inks.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

“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

Its gray skin was covered with blotches of green-and-brown algae, and scars from years of encounters with motorboats crisscrossed its back.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

My notebook pages are wet and blotched by water!

From Salon ● May 28, 2025

Creamy white blooms blotched with maroon centers flood the late spring garden with sweet perfume.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

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

The stone banisters on the outside stairways were chipped, their surfaces blotched with dirt, and the edges of the stone steps were round and smooth from years of use.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

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

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 Darwin, Charles

The sulphurous fumes of the big smelter blotching the southern sky with saffron and coppery red clouds indicated that we were nearing Trail.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)