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
After a few more minutes, the dark splotches ahead of us came into focus.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
