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  • noun Plural form of splash.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of splash.

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Examples

  • DETROIT (AP) - As a reborn baseball town erupted in splashes of orange and blue around them, the Detroit Tigers danced in the infield, kicking up dirt like kids on a sandlot.

    USATODAY.com - Baseball - N.Y. Yankees vs. Detroit 2006

  • Nothing with cheques, or stripes, nothing so light that it would show splashes from the bathroom sink etc.

    Socks and Suits « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2006

  • The British Commonwealth and Empire is painted in splashes of red all over the globe.

    British Commonwealth & Empire Co-Operation 1945

  • The Channel is gray and stormy when we start, and a gout of rain splashes now and then upon the deck.

    In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

  • The odd thing was, the "splashes" - for lack of a better word-seemed to be concentrated around the street people.

    Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • The odd thing was, the "splashes" -for lack of a better word'seemed to be concentrated around the street people.

    Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2000

  • They were splashes, monstrous splashes, that is all, splashes that were eighty feet high.

    THE HEATHEN 2010

  • When it is required to show by the shading that the surfaces are highly polished, the lighter parts of the shading are made to contain what may be termed splashes of lighter and darker shadow, as in Figure 303, which represents an oil cup, having a brass casing enclosing a glass cylinder, which appears through the openings in the brass shell.

    Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose

  • They were splashes, monstrous splashes, that is all, splashes that were eighty feet high.

    The Heathen 1914

  • They were splashes, monstrous splashes, that is all, splashes that were eighty feet high.

    South Sea Tales: The Heathen(DL SunSITE) 1911

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