blotchy

Example Sentences

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Thinning hair, blotchy skin, the swollen and deformed joints that come from severe arthritis.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2025

But the whale’s skin was blotchy, and if it were a right whale, something would have been wrong.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2024

Dengue can cause a fever, severe headache, pain behind the eyes, muscle and joint pain, and a blotchy rash.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2024

The temperature of the CMB varies ever so slightly across the sky, providing a blotchy snapshot of the universe at the moment neutral atoms formed, 380,000 years after the big bang.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 31, 2023

I saw the way your cheeks got blotchy, saw the way you stared at the ground as if you could hold the tears in.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin