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to wet or soil by striking with something liquid or mushy
vehicle after passing vehicle bespattered the sides of my once-clean car with that wintry slush
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Verb
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Gonzalez’s shirt was covered in blood, and blood and vomit was splattered throughout the apartment when he was arrested at the scene that day.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
31 Mar. 2026 -
On rare occasions, after a heavy bout of winter rains, the landscape in spring will burst with Mexican poppies — droplets of sunshine splattered on a canvas of golf-course green.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
26 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Inside, there are 13 stained glass windows alternating in red or blue color with white limestone walls in between.—
Nikki DeMentri,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Firefighters made a hole with an axe just above the entrance to let the thick black smoke flow out and to avoid breaking the eight stained glass windows along the sides of the structure.—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 Mar. 2026
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Once Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted the American flag at Tranquility Base and then splashed down (with Michael Collins) back on Earth, the primary goal of Apollo was met.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
30 Mar. 2026
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Travelers waiting hours stuck in lines snaking through baggage claim and outside the terminal building have been featured on television and splashed across the internet.—
Emma Hurt,
AJC.com,
27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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To gently ease into the longer, brighter days ahead, try our dill-flecked, lighter-and-brighter take on chicken and biscuits.—
Editors of Bon Appétit,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
23 Mar. 2026
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Behind them a young man with a paint-flecked beard followed the designer about the set, twitching the hem of the velvet curtains hung at the window and rearranging the ornaments on the mantelpiece.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Mar. 2026
Verb
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In the den, blood was found spattered on the walls and computer desk.—
Evy Lewis,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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Enterprising group member Freddy (Delaney Quinn) spots the paperback Josh was reading in the trash bin, spattered in blood.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Bespattered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bespattered. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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