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How to use splotch in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Splotch means an irregular-shaped spot or stain. Example: “With them were several splotches of dried blood splattered across the dirt.”

More sentences with splotch

  • 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
  • The red washed out quickly, but left splotches, so I look like a knob.2004 March 9, The Avocado Avenger [Stacia], “ATTn STACIA: re HAre”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet), archived from the original on 16…. From the entry haircuttery
  • They stand out clear and sharp, but they are splotches just the same.1987, Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce, “My Earliest Recollections”, in A Beautiful, Cruel Country, Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press…. From the entry memory lane
  • They are just there like ink splotches on a white wall.1987, Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce, “My Earliest Recollections”, in A Beautiful, Cruel Country, Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press…. From the entry memory lane
  • Their thicknesses vary wildly; splotches hover over skewjawed jabs.2016, Barbara Hurd, Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-heard Melodies, page 29. From the entry skewjawed
  • A splotch of colour on a wall charmed his eye, a fandango of shadows, the nonchalant pose of some labourer.1934, Albert Craig Baird, Essays and Addresses Toward a Liberal Education, page 213. From the entry fandango
  • Upon the barred and slitted wall the splotched shadow of the heaven tree shuddered and pulsed monstrously in scarce any wind.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 122. From the entry scarce
  • The child -God Bless the Mark- had freckles that splotched her face as though God had applied them too hurriedly with a blunt brush.2005, Kevin O'Hara, Last of the Donkey Pilgrims: A Man's Journey Through Ireland, page 244. From the entry dirt
  • He sported long red hair, starting to thin, a red beard, sandals, loose kaftanlike shirts splotched with colors, sometimes a gold chain around his neck.2005, Alan Lightman, A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit, Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry kaftanlike
  • Jeanne sucked back air in a gasp; the ravaged face of this pretty woman, powderless, splotched, and tearstained, one she had known for a lifetime, was frightening.2009, Donna Russo Morin, chapter 17, in The Courtier’s Secret, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry powderless
  • He watched with a chill of wonder the basalt mask splotched with ivy shadow whose round eyes stared back with Kolonian penthos, Dushara with his face among leaves.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!. From the entry penthos

Meaning of splotch

  1. noun An irregular-shaped spot or stain.
  2. verb To mark with splotches.

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Questions about splotch in a sentence

How do you use splotch in a sentence?
Splotch is used as a noun and verb. For example: “With them were several splotches of dried blood splattered across the dirt.”
What is a short sentence with splotch?
“Their thicknesses vary wildly; splotches hover over skewjawed jabs.”
What does splotch mean?
Splotch means an irregular-shaped spot or stain.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: splotch (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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