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
The candles in the chandeliers overflowed and spattered wax on the clothes of the fancy people below.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2023
But “Portrait” shows a face all in spattered indigo, a reference to the blue-skinned gods of Hindu tradition.
From Washington Post • May 20, 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
