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

Plus, my leg was sensitive to the touch, but the splotches weren’t killing me or anything.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2024

And now, with her newly redone pool marred by yellow splotches where each packet dropped, Woolstion will need to pay to refinish the pool again.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2023

Here and there on the long sloping hillside, milky white splotches stood out like spilt buckets of milk in the deep green.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls