How to Use spackle in a Sentence

spackle

verb

• Her journey is one of learning to acknowledge her pain rather than spackle over it with buttercream and sprinkles.
  — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Patch a Small Wall Hole You’ve most likely been taught to repair holes in the wall by spackling them with plaster.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Dec. 2025
• The one that got me is not the strawberries themselves, but the fact that Megan spackled the front of her roll cake in almost like a little modesty garment.
  — Emily Elias, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 May 2026
• Here, the designers share their genius plate-wall-hanging hack that promises a perfect installation on the first try, no tears (or spackling over errant nail holes) required.
  — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2025
• But spackling together a new core out of up-transfers alongside Dillon Hunter, the source of the team’s only returning starts from last year, seems destined for some growing pains.
  — The Athletic College Basketball Staff, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
• And while the performances and the writing are still spackled with amusing barbs and observations about some of the grossest people in American life, The Audacity is missing a crucial forward momentum.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2026
• The Hawkeyes have tried to spackle over their recruiting whiffs with portal additions, bringing in seven different quarterbacks since 2023, including five that have started at least one game in Iowa City.
  — Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 24 July 2026