How to Use splotch in a Sentence

splotch

1 of 2 noun
  • The dots soon became acrid splotches of oil.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The night that once stained his career is barely a splotch now.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 27 June 2018
  • The coronal hole is that big, dark-blue splotch at the bottom.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2014
  • These splotches shouldn't last long and shouldn't be a cause for concern.
    — Taylyn Washington-Harmon, Health, 29 June 2023
  • When Miles spritzed it with water, the black splotch bloomed bright and green.
    — Sabrina Imbler, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The red splotch grew every day but was never itchy and lasted for about six days.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2021
  • While the state cleaned off most of the paint, red splotches are still visible.
    — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
  • There are a few other red splotches as well as some breakouts on the rest of her face.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Pasty, light-brown skin spotted with splotches of darker brown.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The black splotches were raised, like tiny hillocks, and covered in even tinier white stipples.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Four craters are surrounded with shards of glass, flip-flops, and splotches of fresh blood.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Maybe, maybe, maybe— Hans turned back to his board, red splotches rising on his cheeks.
    — Ben Mezrich, Vanity Fair, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Ken did the same, marking each lapse with a black splotch of permanent marker.
    — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
  • The pants featured an unusual dark brown splotch print that looked almost like stains.
    — Meg Walters, InStyle, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Its slender, pale yellow body was covered in rust-and-black splotches.
    — Alejandro Arteaga, National Geographic, 14 June 2018
  • To the naked eye, the caterpillar appeared gray with black splotches.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • To the north, a dark-blue splotch around the Great Lakes—extreme-cold warning.
    — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Dried splotches of bright colors — pink, orange and neon blue — stained the pavement.
    — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 13 Aug. 2017
  • The other is an overlay of orange and yellow splotches on the land.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Oily, orange coffee rust is a fungus that grows on coffee crops in splotches.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2020
  • This print was a muted tan hue with black splotches representing a snake's scales.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Mold doesn’t always announce itself with dark splotches on a wall or ceiling.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 9 May 2026
  • Its flowers are huge and orange, marked or mottled with maroon splotches.
    — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
  • Heather, interviewed three weeks after the crash, showed selfies of red face and neck splotches.
    — John Flesher, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2023
  • In the distance, splotches of purple and fuchsia seem to explode.
    — Heather Greenwood Davis, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Splotches of fire-suppressing slurry dotted the hills in bright pink.
    — Alden Woods, azcentral, 27 Apr. 2017
  • When seen from above, the melting sea ice looked like a field of white mottled with dark splotches where the ice had turned to liquid.
    — Meredith Fore, WIRED, 5 July 2019
  • Thankfully, my overall score still wasn’t too bad, but again, all the calcium was in that same white splotch.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 4 Feb. 2022
  • But look at that angry red and rust colored splotch over Europe in July.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2015
  • But the next morning Korei woke up with new splotches across her arm and forehead.
    — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 17 May 2016

splotch

2 of 2 verb
  • The sun rose above the trees and splotched the swamp floor with patch es of golden light.
    — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
  • But there is no need to splotch your eclipse safety glasses with tears.
    — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Her client's blonde hair was splotched with green, orange, and purple.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The whites of his eyes were splotched with blood, a sign that blood vessels on the surface of his eyes had burst.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The green leaves are splotched with white and bumpy on the upper side, and the stems are hairy, which deters deer.
    — Lauren David, Southern Living, 4 June 2026
  • Some of the trunks in these pictures have sinuous trunks of brown, splotched green, black and gray.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
  • My dress had a pristine white top with an attached skirt in dove grey, splotched with tropical-style petal pink flowers.
    — Amanda Uhle august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Walls throughout the four-bedroom home were still covered in sheet-rock splotched with pink spackle, but Day said the home was very close to being finished.
    — Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian, kansascity, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Yuskavage, in a flowing Dries van Noten dress splotched with fuchsia, green, and yellow, appraised the painting.
    — Ariel Levy, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • This group includes angel-wing begonias, named for their folded, often spotted or splotched leaves, which resemble wings.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 5 June 2020
  • The ocean becomes a creamy expanse splotched with brown mats of decomposing algae, according to photos shared by Abrams.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2026
  • On a May visit to the Falls Church, Virginia, store, the floors in the refrigerator aisles were splotched with brown stains.
    — Sarah Halzack, miamiherald, 25 June 2017

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