Sentence examples for spotty understanding from inspiring English sources

By the time Dr. Rabalais entered the scene in 1985, fishermen and scientists knew that marine life there was suffering recurring, devastating bouts of death by suffocation but had only a spotty understanding of the process and what might be done to mitigate it.

So while the cheetah robot's velocity has nothing on the spotty beast of the jungle, its ability to mirror the movements of real cats' legs is aiding further understanding of feline locomotion, and being applied to rove gingerly over rough terrain.

ACCURACY -- Spotty.

Not spotty?

But progress is spotty.

The acting is spotty.

Her German is spotty.

Postal service is spotty.

So oversight is spotty.

Desserts were spotty.

Service was spotty.