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 the second image included a big blotch, a blast zone of disturbed dust radiating outward more than 10 miles that had not been in the first image.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

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

It spread into a blotch that reached to the edges of my vision.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

A new study provides the first worldwide map of such regions, which show up on every continent except Antarctica like giant, angry skin blotches.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024

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

He leaped over the side and struggled toward shore, splashing through water covered with blotches of burning black oil.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

My notebook pages are wet and blotched by water!

From Salon ● May 28, 2025

The blotched anthias Bowling bred after the broken air conditioner are listed for $700 on his company’s website.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2022

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

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Altered taqpep genes were already known to cause blotched tabby patterns in cats, as well as king cheetahs’ unusually large spots and stripes.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 21, 2021

Something huge...something bigger than a house and with gray, blotched skin.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

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

The coloured picture will convey a far better idea as to the colouring and blotching of the flowers than any printed description.

From Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air by John Weathers

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