The phrase "scattered words" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to words or phrases that are not arranged in a cohesive or organized manner, but are rather scattered throughout a sentence. Example: The student's essay was difficult to follow, as it was filled with scattered words and lacked a clear structure.
These were the Azzurri, the blues who will represent Italy at the World Baseball Classic, drawing scattered words of Italian encouragement from Piazza, their hitting coach.
John Hersey, who acted as Lewis's secretary for a summer, was horrified, as he "endlessly" retyped drafts, "to see thousands upon thousands of words — not scattered words and phrases but long passages, whole scenes — ruthlessly slashed out".
The word of god has become scattered words, now lacking a divine unity and mission.
if you're searching through an online search engine such as Google, enclose the phrase with quotation marks ("get in the ring" and not get in the ring), so that the engine would search for the phrase as it is, and not as scattered words that just happen to be on the same page.
But instead of piecing his reading life back together and making sense of the scattered words, Mr. Lessmore leaves.
Time collapses, for instance, so that an entire season passes in a moment, and language deteriorates from complex sentences to scattered words and guttural sounds.
It is part of Alderman's schtick to pepper her novel with Hebrew terms, but she scatters words many Jews, let alone non-Jews, won't recognise, and mostly for no good narrative reason, so rendering the language lifeless.
The man was everywhere, nattering on in his homely way, scattering words like so much grass seed and gazing off mist-eyed into the middle distance whenever he came up with a particularly tasty truism... Attenborough's hushed, professorial whisper always gives the impression that he's happy to be dispenseing precious knowledge,... Titchmarsh is more insistent.
Mr. Lopez scattered Spanish words and phrases through his monologues.
"Lovely, Still" is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested) for widely scattered salty words.
The enormity of it all was on full display in Johnson's scattered final words as a Lakers employee.
