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How to use splatter in a sentence

23 example sentences · noun, verb

Splatter means an uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact. Example: “He had a hard time cleaning up the paint splatters on the carpet.”

Examples of splatter by meaning

nounAn uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.

  • He had a hard time cleaning up the paint splatters on the carpet.

nounA genre of gory horror.

  • splatter film; splatter movie

verbTo splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.

  • The drink splattered all over me, the table, and the floor when I knocked it over.

verbTo cause (something) to splatter.

  • He splattered paint onto the wall.

verbTo spatter (something or somebody).

  • The farmer whose land the Pratincole had chosen to frequent had such an adversion to birders that he had been thundering up and down all day in a high-powered muck-spreader, splattering them with cow dung!1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 59

More sentences with splatter

  • After cooking the thanksgiving turkey we appreciate the self-cleaning oven as it gets really hot and burns off the splattered grease.From the entry self-cleaning
  • In his zany prop comedy Gallagher would sometimes smash watermelons and splatter the front rows of the audience.From the entry prop comedy
  • With them were several splotches of dried blood splattered across the dirt.2013 December 9, Michael Phillips, The Sword, the Garden, and the King, Rosetta Books, →ISBN. From the entry about
  • Goldfarb’s impasto is applied, frostinglike, with a palette knife, and Norman Bluhm offers a symphony of splatters.2007 August 31, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times. From the entry frostinglike
  • The unpredictability of Gemini was then contrasted with examples of human spontaneity, like the splatter technique of Jackson Pollock.2025 January 30, Tessa Solomon, “AI Art Lacking ‘Human Expression’ Cannot Be Copyrighted, US Officials Say”, in ARTnews. From the entry spontaneity
  • Mr Bannerjee's smile disappeared as quickly as if Sam had just shot it with his antimatter splatter gun.2013, Jeremy Strong, Cartoon Kid - Zombies!, →ISBN. From the entry splatter gun
  • Someone had welded it shut with a splatter gun.2010, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Effendi, →ISBN. From the entry splatter gun
  • There are testimonials from happy WordPressers, fan art, and official logos and graphics to splatter over your digital universe.2010, Bud Smith, Michael McCallister, WordPress in Depth, Indianapolis, Ind.: Que, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 382. From the entry WordPresser
  • This would give you time to get into a doorway and all you suffered was a few splatters.1999, Jan-Andrew Henderson, The Town Below the Ground: Edinburgh's Legendary Underground City, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company…. From the entry gardyloo
  • The ink splattered blottoes on the wall.1946, Theodora Du Bois, Death Sails in a High Wind, London: T[homas] V[olney] Boardman & Co., →OCLC, page 134. From the entry blotto
  • The house was silent save for the wind outside, and the noisy trickling and splattering of water in the water-butts.1915, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 2, in The Rainbow, New York: The Modern Library, page 72. From the entry water butt
  • Gaius’ blow sent it sprawling from your hand and onto the dusty grass where its saucy, porcine contents splattered forth from its freshly-baked body.2013, Kazerad, Katia: Follow captain, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), May 08 2013. From the entry porcine
  • The popularity of the splatter platters proved the American public, despite wanting to appear outwardly normal, had a remarkably wide morbid streak.2013 February 14, James Greene, This Music Leaves Stains: The Complete Story of the Misfits, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry splatter platter
  • Their fellow diners, like their ketchupped grub, were appropriately dashed and splattered with paint and plaster, reading their Suns and Daily Mirror.2009, David Silverman, Twinkle, page 4. From the entry ketchup
  • After Sam filled in my big block letters with the glitter, he unleashed his inner Jackson Pollock, wanging artful paint splatters everywhere.2009, Mark Millhone, “Saltville”, in The Patron Saint of Used Cars and Second Chances: A Memoir, Rodale, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry wang
  • Choose from assorted size “Walnut” frypans, “Super Beige” heavy duty base frypans, crêpiers, “Imperial” saucepans, dutch ovens & frypans with new “durabase” & splatter covers!1985 October 26, “Pascal... The Complete Choice In Houseware!”, in The Weekend Citizen, Ottawa, Ont.. From the entry crêpier
  • Penn State quickly scored the first touchdown against Oklahoma, showing roughly what Switzer meant when he called State "a physical, smash-mouth type of ball club" that "splatters you."1986, TIME. From the entry smash-mouth
  • The ball flew between them at incredible speed, hitting off their pads with a swack! that could be heard clearly above the steady splattering of the rain.1981, Daniel Peters, The Luck of Huemac: A Novel about the Aztecs, page 351. From the entry swack

Meaning of splatter

  1. noun An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.
  2. noun A genre of gory horror.
  3. noun Spurious emissions resulting from an abrupt change in a transmitted radio signal.

Full definition of splatter

Questions about splatter in a sentence

How do you use splatter in a sentence?
Splatter is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He had a hard time cleaning up the paint splatters on the carpet.”
What is a short sentence with splatter?
“splatter film; splatter movie”
What does splatter mean?
Splatter means an uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: splatter (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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