splotches

Example Sentences

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The other is an overlay of orange and yellow splotches on the land.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

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

Red splotches were appearing all over his face and flecks of spit were shooting out of his mouth as he talked.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl