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- noun Plural form of
scattering .
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Examples
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Alas, they mostly accumulate, fade, grow old, discolored, brittle … manila folders of them in my living room … stacks of them here on the floor of the coop, scatterings of them on top my impossible desk.
john tagliabue | nieuwerkerk aan den ijssel « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Mile after mile of barren desert went by, with scatterings of villages and towns.
Archive 2009-08-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009
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By the way, Bridges sounds so much like The Dude from The Big Lebowski, with his rhythmic scatterings of "cool" and "man," it doesn't take long to find yourself adopting that parlance, too.
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Mile after mile of barren desert went by, with scatterings of villages and towns.
Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters "the horror" in Rwanda, Eastern Congo and Palestine/Israel Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009
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In those days, these forests had been the domain of the Seneca, with scatterings of refugee coastal tribes from the south and east.
Zebratown Greg Donaldson 2010
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Deryn wondered how the Clankers managed it, translating questions into scatterings of holes in paper.
Behemoth Mr. Scott Westerfeld 2010
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Among Leonsis's concerns after working that shift: streamers and confetti are brutal for the workers, and massive peanut shell scatterings are dangerous for people with allergies.
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Along the way we see small scatterings of communities living on narrow pieces of land close to the road with their few possessions and scanty makeshift shelters ... many just'sleeping under the sky '.
Louis Belanger: "We feel brave" - the plight of Pakistani women Louis Belanger 2010
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Naturally, rooms come with increasingly tortuous columns, divisions and scatterings of beasts, who themselves get shields only permeable by a specifically coloured light.
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Our feeders are designed to keep out the large birds and squirrels, so the jays have to eat the scatterings on the ground, I never get a photo of them.
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