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
They’re mostly black except for yellow splotches on the top of their thorax and heads.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2023
Criminologists had come to understand that blood coagulates at the lowest point of a body after death, producing dark splotches on the skin.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
