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

The floor is layered with dry splotches of paint, the walls plastered with sketches of tormented teenagers and fat puppies, the shelves crowded with clay pots.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson