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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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Lee Billings, Scientific American, 26 July 2024
Doppler radar detected debris lofted by the tornadoes, which appeared as blue splotches on weather maps.
—Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2024
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
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Noun
But its most notable visual features are its reddish and whitish stripes—the former are speckled with dark-rimmed, light-colored splotches resembling a leopard’s spots.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 26 July 2024
Doppler radar detected debris lofted by the tornadoes, which appeared as blue splotches on weather maps.
—Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
Verb
Back then, the Royal Caribbean vessel was essentially a blank canvas, shrouded in scaffolding and netting, with patches of pale blue livery splotched across the hull.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2024
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
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“Splotch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/splotch. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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