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
On one residential street, two machines about 20 yards apart are spattered with a bright white substance.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 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
Put on goggles and rubber gloves, and, if you’re using bleach, wear clothes you don’t mind getting spattered.
From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2022
It was nearly full dark, and the rain spattered in squalls against my face.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
