spattered
Example Sentences
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After hours spent in the thick pollution-choking parts of northern Thailand, Pon Doikam gets home and blows her burning nose to find blood clots spattered across the tissue.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Llera, who has covered crime for more than three decades, smoked a cigarette while he snapped photographs of a taxi spattered with blood.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024
English was the common language, spattered with classical Latin.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 16, 2024
Somewhat gentler are the near-abstract “Harmonious Binaries,” spattered with white paint, and “The Last Look at the Homeland,” in which a girl looks over her shoulder.
From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2022
Reaching out one hand, Kvothe dipped a finger into the liquor that spattered the bar.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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