splotches

Example Sentences

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The paint-spattered wooden floor is littered with pages from old newspapers, some scrumpled up, the black and white print obscured by vibrant splotches of colour.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

Even a healthy apple is susceptible to bitter pit, a disorder that marks the skin with black splotches and ruins the fruit’s flesh.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

Now we see only black-and-white drawings, faces and bodies emerging from midnight splotches of ink.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2025

They’re mostly black except for yellow splotches on the top of their thorax and heads.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2023

The boy’s whole body trembled, his face pasty white, making his wet, red eyes stand out like bloody splotches on paper.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner