Noun
the bleach left a small white splotch on my shirt Verb
ink from a leaking pen had badly splotched his shirt pocket
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Noun
The flying frogs have stripes on their back legs, and some of them have small black spots or larger splotches.—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 22 May 2024 Wilder, like Bing, has two different-colored eyes and a splotch on his scrotum.—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
Verb
Thick corded trunks snake upward from the ground, reaching toward an overhead lattice of branches splotched with green.—Pragathi Ravi, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2024 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 See all Example Sentences for splotch
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