Sentence examples for splotch from inspiring English sources

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splotch

noun

An irregular-shaped spot or stain.

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The yellow splotch, he claimed, was salmon poop.A friend and I had settled down in the lounge at the Breeze Inn in the town of Seward.

From the sky, Concept C, "a theater for baseball," looked like an artist's palette, with a circular roof sliding off and on like a runny splotch of paint.

In "Glassbottomed," she writes: If only the plain brown splotch — my home, my head — had a place, a say, the way rancid meat still has protein.

Bree is lying on her belly, in a strapless whipped-cream bikini, with not a splotch of cream (or a retouched pixel) out of place.

A black mold-fungus-blast that came on like a splotch and then gradually started taking you over, tunnelling right through you — though as it turned out it wasn't a mold-fungus-blast at all.

The flush on one of her cheeks slides into a splotch of pale brown as big as a handprint.

The children are horrified: all their anxiety is centered on that one splotch.

Where earlier copyists had Bradford concluding that "the light here kindled hath shone to many," Morison pointed out that the light actually shone "unto" many; a splotch that looked as though Bradford had crossed out the "un" turned out, on closer inspection, to be "merely an inadvertent blot from the Governor's quill pen".

"I told the driver to pull over on the other side of the street, but he wouldn't do it," Cohen said, the wet splotch drying in the center of his T-shirt.

It took me at least a month, more like two, to move Keller onto my kitchen counter, ready for its first splotch and for the careless company of the books I think of as my workhorse cookbooks — homely, tattered affairs with awkward drawings of hands folding ravioli and boning capons.

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CHRISTOPHER WOOL Wool, the silkiest of painting-is-dead painters, has worked through motifs of block-lettered words and wallpaper patterns to his present phase of generic slash-and-splotch abstraction, in grisaille.

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