Sentence examples for splodge from inspiring English sources
noun
An irregular-shaped splash, smear, or patch.
He grew up in Enfield, a suburban splodge that crowns north London, and went to the borough's Latymer school.
Older men who wear scuffed shoes and a fraying tweed jacket, accidentally accessorized with a splodge of egg yolk down their tie, are "eccentric" or "distractedly intellectual".
A letter he wrote after his arrest suggested that a "large splodge of wonga" (English schoolboy slang for lots of money) is the usual way out of an African prison.More used to press reports of misrule, repression and corruption, the government of this speck of a country is enjoying its rare chance to pose as the victim of an international terrorist plot.
A timely printing hitch ensured that thousands of copies of the Torygraph had a large splodge of Lib Dem yellow splattered across the front page.
His departure from government in this reshuffle removes another splodge of colour from the Westminster palette, and his interview on the "Today" programme this morning illustrated it.
The challah bread (£2) comes with a pungent and strong tahini and za'atar (a collection of Middle Eastern spices), and they serve the butter with a splodge of moreish date syrup.
Last year's pavilion by Japan's Sanaa – a minimal, splodge-shaped mirrored roof supported by stick-thin columns – didn't match the high standard set by predecessors such as Daniel Libeskind, Toyo Ito and Frank Gehry.
In Mr Kuntoro's favoured draft of the decree, the moratorium would cover all the green splodges.
Graffiti calling for the king's overthrow are crossed out by the authorities every day, only to reappear somewhere else, until the walls are entirely covered by black splodges.
Maybe, Mr Bell thinks, if they are by Howard Hodgkin, where "the swipes and splodges of colour thrill, seeming to promise meaning, yet meaning no one thing.
A medieval pope, by contrast, would surely have condemned Kandinsky for making meaningless splodges, where what was needed was the lucid configuration of liturgy and creed the Bible for illiterates.
