How to use spotted in a sentence

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• I spotted his next shenanigan—saw it coming—and so avoided being fooled.From the entry shenanigan
• Amid the flutters of sunshine drifting through the dense canopy, I spotted my target.From the entry flutter
• The preteen was freaked out when she spotted a college-aged man gazing at her lecherously.From the entry lecherously
• She denied it but she had been spotted in the act.From the entry in the act
• Most tiger moths have broad, striped (hence the name) or spotted wings.From the entry tiger moth
• She's traipsed off to Borneo to see the lesser spotted pygmy owl, or something like that.From the entry lesser spotted
• I spotted my neighbour on the morning TV show.From the entry show
• I spotted the carpet where the child dropped spaghetti.From the entry spot
• Just after he spotted the first plane on the horizon, sirens started to go off around the city.From the entry go off
• A Chinese freighter was spotted entering the harbor.From the entry freighter
• The spotted botete lay at the bottom of the sea.From the entry botete
• I relocated the bird I spotted last week.From the entry relocate
• Having spotted an unknown contact on radar, the navigation officer attempted to identify the vessel using the ship's AIS.From the entry ais
• While inspecting a concrete drainage ditch on the property, they spotted skeletal remains.2026 August 17, Nicholas Muhoro, “Craig Frear Disappeared After Avoiding His Father in 2004, and No Trace of Him Has Ever Been Found”, in…. From the entry tape off
• One of our eagle-eyed officers spotted a vehicle driving erratically in Lemington.2025 December 31, Next Door Website. From the entry uplift
• It has been the champion of this, because it spotted the merit.2025 July 23, Paul Clifton, “Air force: drones' developing railway role”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 31. From the entry trendsetter
• TThe Egyptian goose (circled) was spotted in a scoop of pelicans.2023 January 9, Himanshu Kaushik, “Rare sighting”, in The Times of India. From the entry scoop
• Climbing one on his second day lost, Prosperi spotted a disturbance to the view.2023 July 4, Paula Cocozza, “I was lost in the desert for nine and a half days – and sustained myself with raw bats and urine”, in The…. From the entry marabout
• Ahead, in the Little Missouri River bottom, Jakub spotted an obstinacy of bison ambling down the riverbank.2022, Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land, Liveright. From the entry obstinacy
• Rounding the turn, he spotted a man moving from stall to stall, peddling rosquillas.2022, Iris Munchinsky, chapter 18, in Shadow of the Masters, Winnipeg, Man.: Word Alive Press, →ISBN. From the entry rosquilla
• By now you’ve likely spotted the Barbiecore trend on celebs and runways.2022 December 18, Laura White, “The Sparkliest, Spangliest Holiday Frocks At Target”, in HuffPost. From the entry Barbiecore
• About ten minutes after passing the U.S. aircraft, they spotted Hornet (local weather patterns temporarily concealing Enterprise).2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 10:55 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04…. From the entry cacophony
• The rows of kettlebells, spotted with various colors of spray paint, fit in with the spartan surroundings.2021 March 29, E. Alex Jung, “The Budget Kettlebell That Vulture Writer E. Alex Jung Swings at Home”, in Wirecutter. From the entry kettlebell
• But as quickly as we had spotted them, they spotted us.2019, Lindsay McCrae, My Penguin Year: Living with the Emperors. From the entry emperor
• The next day in Boyztown I spotted an old bull tongue kissing a young male Cambodian lioness.2019, Luke Williams, Down and Out in Paradise: East, West, Sex, Death, Echo, →ISBN. From the entry Boyztown
• Scimitar cats had a sloping back like a spotted hyena and were probably excellent runners.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 107. From the entry scimitar cat
• So far, the yellow flowers have only been spotted in Hualien’s Juisui Township (瑞穗鄉), reported CNA.2018 March 10, Renée Salmonsen, “Ephemeral golden blossoms spotted in east Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 10 Mar…. From the entry Juisui
• When he spotted Natalie descending the staircase, he begged her to try the elevator.2016, Susan Wolf Johnson, King Daniel: Gasparilla King of the Pirates. From the entry hummer
• The patroler held his torch high and Viriathus spotted him from a safe distance.2016, Gusme Bonomi, Otis: True Sea Monsters, Lulu Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN. From the entry patroler
• We further tested the analytical performance of spotted NF bioelectrodes, as shown in Fig.2015 July 16, Veeradasan Perumal et al., “‘Spotted Nanoflowers’: Gold-seeded Zinc Oxide Nanohybrid for Selective Bio-capture”, in…. From the entry bioelectrodes
• In this context, Pithovirus was initially spotted using light microscopy as ovoid particles (Fig.2014 March 8, M Legendre et al., “Thirty-thousand-year-old distant relative of giant icosahedral DNA viruses with a pandoravirus…. From the entry pithovirus
• Then, he spotted something high in one of the half-burned trees.2014, Jan Fields, Hunt for Sewer Gators, ABDO, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry Batsquatch
• I can't believe he's that clever to have boarded a boat or an aeroplane without being spotted.2014, Michael Pekenham, Love Thine Enemy. From the entry lay-bye
• And he had spotted the tiny one-shot in his coat pocket, which no one ever noticed.2013, Clive Cussler, Justin Scott, The Striker, →ISBN. From the entry one-shot
• It was the forewatch who spotted it first bearing down from the front.2012, Jeane Heimberger Candido, Shepherd's Song. From the entry forewatch
• Humpies travel in schools on or near the surface, so the dorsal fin can be easily spotted.2011, Warren Miller, Lurching from One Near Disaster to the Next, →ISBN. From the entry humpie
• When inquiring of people, ask about "civets", for spotted skunks are often mistakenly known as civets.2008, Charles A. Long, The Wild Mammals of Wisconsin, Pensoft, page 410. From the entry civet
• He returned a quarter-hearted wave and went back to whatever he'd been doing before he spotted her.2008, Isabel Sharpe, As Good as It Got, page 148. From the entry quarter-hearted
• Leopard skins have always been desirable commodities because of their spectacular spotted patterns.2005, Richard Ellis, Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine, page 197. From the entry leopard

Meaning of spotted

1. adjective Discoloured by spots; stained.
2. adjective Characterized by spots (used especially of animals and plants).

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Questions about spotted in a sentence

How do you use spotted in a sentence?

Spotted is used as an adjective. For example: “I spotted his next shenanigan—saw it coming—and so avoided being fooled.”

What is a short sentence with spotted?

“a spotted hyena”

What does spotted mean?

Spotted means discoloured by spots; stained.