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Examples of splotch in a Sentence
Noun
the bleach left a small white splotch on my shirt
Verb
ink from a leaking pen had badly splotched his shirt pocket
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Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2024
The most distinctive feature of lone star ticks may be the starlike white splotch on the backs of adult females that gives them their name.
—Catherine Roberts, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
Pragathi Ravi, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2024
Some of the trunks in these pictures have sinuous trunks of brown, splotched green, black and gray.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
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Noun
Think of its imperfections, its spots and splotches, carved out and cratered from the impacts of asteroids, meteorites, and comets.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2024
The most distinctive feature of lone star ticks may be the starlike white splotch on the backs of adult females that gives them their name.
—Catherine Roberts, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
Verb
Thick corded trunks snake upward from the ground, reaching toward an overhead lattice of branches splotched with green.
—Pragathi Ravi, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2024
Some of the trunks in these pictures have sinuous trunks of brown, splotched green, black and gray.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
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“Splotch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/splotch. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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