blotch

It would be an unavoidable blotch at the bottom of James’ 23-season resume that otherwise is highlighted by a 3-1 comeback against the Golden State Warriors in the 2016 NBA Finals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 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

Vineyards at harvest time are a popular subject for photographers and romantics, but those beautiful red leaves betray a disease called red blotch virus.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2022

Flies, dun or grey, or black, marked like orcs with a red eye-shaped blotch, buzzed and stung; and above the briar-thickets clouds of hungry midges danced and reeled.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Bartram's bass display a light golden color with dark brown blotches along their sides, a mottled belly, and fins with a rosy tint.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 23, 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

She stared into them, at the little odd blotches inside, until she realized each had a tiny clump of different kinds of human hair.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

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

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 Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman