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: a spot or mark (as of color or ink) especially when large or irregular
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Examples of blotch in a Sentence
Verb
blotched the bedroom walls with various shades of blue to give them a textured effect
my pen leaked and blotched my shirt pocket
Noun
blotches on the tree's leaves
a dog with a single small blotch of black
Recent Examples on the Web
Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020
The friend spotted a big male Chinook — its fins torn, its back blotched with the fungus of decay.
—Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 5 May 2018
Inside the box there's a pile of mint-green paint chips, blotched with brown stains and cracked like a dehydrated lake bed.
—Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 24 Oct. 2017
As Ghosh writes, back in 1635, in a village nearby Slovakia’s Strazov Mountains, lawyer Jan Ladislaides marked his stamp of approval on municipal account documents with a small blotched drawing of two dots and a line inside a circle.
—Lauren Young, Smithsonian, 6 Feb. 2017
People emerged from the pools, their pale white skin blotched with red.
—James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
As Ghosh writes, back in 1635, in a village nearby Slovakia’s Strazov Mountains, lawyer Jan Ladislaides marked his stamp of approval on municipal account documents with a small blotched drawing of two dots and a line inside a circle.
—Lauren Young, Smithsonian, 6 Feb. 2017
Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2023
Beckham, the team’s co-owner and president, had huge dark blotches on his blue blazer because of the rain.
—Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2023
As its name suggests, the species’ skin is bright blue and covered in a smattering of black blotches that are unique to the individual.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2023
The steel hood over the fireplace is stained with blotches of plaster and red paint to create an abstract artwork.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 20 Apr. 2023
Sooty blotch looks like a brown or black blotch on the fruit; sooty blotch, unlike flyspeck, will wipe off the fruit.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2022
Another fascinating trait of the species is their distinct and irregular star-like blotches extending to their hooves.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
Covington police found blotches of blood throughout the apartment as well as outside on the balcony, according to trial testimony.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 23 July 2023
Tech leaders immediately predicted that medical fields such as radiology and dermatology, which require doctors to learn subtle differences in X-ray images and blotches on their patients’ skin, would be totally disrupted by AI.
—Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
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Verb
Still, in the contents of this collection, some blotched with stray fingerprints or grease splatters, O’Keeffe left traces of her daily effort to maintain Abiquiu as a sanctuary.
—Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020
The friend spotted a big male Chinook — its fins torn, its back blotched with the fungus of decay.
—Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 5 May 2018
Inside the box there's a pile of mint-green paint chips, blotched with brown stains and cracked like a dehydrated lake bed.
—Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 24 Oct. 2017
As Ghosh writes, back in 1635, in a village nearby Slovakia’s Strazov Mountains, lawyer Jan Ladislaides marked his stamp of approval on municipal account documents with a small blotched drawing of two dots and a line inside a circle.
—Lauren Young, Smithsonian, 6 Feb. 2017
People emerged from the pools, their pale white skin blotched with red.
—James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
As Ghosh writes, back in 1635, in a village nearby Slovakia’s Strazov Mountains, lawyer Jan Ladislaides marked his stamp of approval on municipal account documents with a small blotched drawing of two dots and a line inside a circle.
—Lauren Young, Smithsonian, 6 Feb. 2017
Noun
Leaf blotch and leaf spots can also happen when temperatures are high or leaves are overwatered.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2023
Beckham, the team’s co-owner and president, had huge dark blotches on his blue blazer because of the rain.
—Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2023
As its name suggests, the species’ skin is bright blue and covered in a smattering of black blotches that are unique to the individual.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2023
The steel hood over the fireplace is stained with blotches of plaster and red paint to create an abstract artwork.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 20 Apr. 2023
Sooty blotch looks like a brown or black blotch on the fruit; sooty blotch, unlike flyspeck, will wipe off the fruit.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2022
Another fascinating trait of the species is their distinct and irregular star-like blotches extending to their hooves.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
Covington police found blotches of blood throughout the apartment as well as outside on the balcony, according to trial testimony.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 23 July 2023
Tech leaders immediately predicted that medical fields such as radiology and dermatology, which require doctors to learn subtle differences in X-ray images and blotches on their patients’ skin, would be totally disrupted by AI.
—Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
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