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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of splotch.

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  • adjective marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots

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Examples

  • Her eyes were splotched red with broken blood vessels, and blood dripped from her nose.

    Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

  • Painters in splotched overalls carry in buckets and brushes.

    Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011

  • He was wearing his new ladybird-red waistcoat, and it suits him well, although his normally coiffed hair was disordered and his delicate cheeks splotched with colour.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Bruises splotched his lower back, chest, and arms.

    Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

  • They'd come out to the city limits after chasing us to get a clear view of things, with eye-slits cut into their stitched white hoods, splotched with a smattering of pink.

    carbon dating Jerry Ratch 2011

  • His black workboots are splotched and spotted with whatever it is streaking his pant legs.

    Pride of craft 2009

  • Shaded by a droopy live oak tree and splotched with moss clinging to its mortared block walls, it looked dropped there from some ancient time, seeming all the more out of place with asphalt crowding it on three sides.

    Sonny Brewer - An interview with author 2010

  • Painters in splotched overalls carry in buckets and brushes.

    Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011

  • His black workboots are splotched and spotted with whatever it is streaking his pant legs.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • An imposing man with the makings of a beard splotched across his face, Garrard skulked down the grimy Philadelphia streets slouched forward as if his muscles were barely contained within his hoodie.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

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