How to Use blotch in a Sentence

blotch

noun
  • Pale to brown blotches on leaves are the work of squash bugs.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 12 June 2017
  • The belly is tan or gray with dark blotches.
    — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The sides may be mottled with brown blotches.
    — Ken Perrotte, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • Dark brown blotches of varying sizes dot their sides and back.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Soon, red blotches were sprouting on his skin.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
  • The base of its tail has a small bright orange blotch, a photo shows.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Roach stepped out of the second round of combat with a big, blueish blotch on the bill of her helmet.
    — Rick Montgomery, kansascity, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Sooty blotch looks like a brown or black blotch on the fruit; sooty blotch, unlike flyspeck, will wipe off the fruit.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2022
  • This fungal disease known as red spot or red blotch will get into the bulb itself.
    — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Flanks -- who drove a new blue car and did not have a white blotch on his face -- was arrested shortly after.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Last night, the only blotch on his record was a leadoff bunt single in the 1st inning.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 7 June 2022
  • These blotches are fairly plant friendly and produce what is known as algal leaf spot.
    — Brian Bell, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2026
  • In his works on paper from the early two-thousands, color seems to start over with each stroke, scratch, or blotch.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Several snakes have a blueish gray coloring with brown band-like blotches.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2024
  • At night, bright blotches of light visible through the station’s windows mark the world’s great cities.
    — NBC News, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Odd blotches beneath its eyes pulsate over the serpent’s seeming smile.
    — National Geographic, 16 Dec. 2016
  • Its hairless stalks are light green with red to purplish blotches on the stalk or trunk, with graceful, carrot-like leaves.
    — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 1 June 2018
  • Look for a nearby blotch of green space or set off in search of a sunset or a playground full of happy memories.
    — New York Times, 5 July 2021
  • The steel hood over the fireplace is stained with blotches of plaster and red paint to create an abstract artwork.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Gopher snakes tend to be tan-colored with large square brown blotches or saddles along their backs and smaller gray spots on their sides.
    — Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • And precious Napa Valley grapes now contend with the grapevine red blotch virus.
    — Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2021
  • In another, a group of men stands out against the dark blotches of tents and brush at a camp in Idomeni, Greece.
    — Max Campbell, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2017
  • Their coloration varies between yellow, tan, olive, brown, gray, orange or reddish brown with dark blotches.
    — Michelle Lou, CNN, 11 June 2019
  • Leaf blotch and leaf spots can also happen when temperatures are high or leaves are overwatered.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2023
  • And in each case, the only integument known from these dinosaurs were blotches of scaly skin from areas of the neck, hips, and tail.
    — Brian Switek, Scientific American Blog Network, 14 June 2017
  • Its purple black center was surrounded by blotches of varying shades and textures, raised or sunken at places.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Beckham, the team’s co-owner and president, had huge dark blotches on his blue blazer because of the rain.
    — Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • Four losses in four playoff appearances will always be a blotch on Dalton’s record here.
    — John Fay, Cincinnati.com, 28 Dec. 2019
  • Identifiers of pygmy rattlesnakes are blotches on both their back and sides and a possible reddish-brown stripe down the spine.
    — Cole Sikes Communications and Marketing Specialist Alabama Cooperative Extension System, al, 25 Apr. 2023
  • But skimping on the self-tanner can actually result in blotches and stripes.
    — Deanna Pai, Glamour, 6 June 2026

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