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  • noun Plural form of spattering.

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Examples

  • Empty shotty shells and spent bullet cases rolling around the tray and the cab. dried dead animal blood still congealed in the rear tray, spatterings of animal hair in the tow bar included too.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » In Melb, evening of 27 Aug. 2009

  • In the past, record companies took albums out of circulation on a regular basis, releasing then again only in spatterings or, in most cases, not at all.

    The Changing Music Market 2006

  • Baden said that if Benjamin was standing in the position that he said he would -- which is very important to the prosecutor -- he's close, he can see Williams, he can supposedly hear what Williams has to say -- that Benoit Benjamin would have some blood spatterings on him as a result of the gunshot.

    CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2004 2004

  • These were her own in-board subsystems coupled with high-bit-rate spatterings of meaning -- guesses, really.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • The storm that was bringing snow to Iowa was already smothering the New York skyline with gray tendrils of fog and spatterings of drizzle.

    Cyberbooks Bova, Ben, 1932- 1989

  • The storm that was bringing snow to Iowa was already smothering the New York skyline with gray tendrils of fog and spatterings of drizzle.

    Cyberbooks Bova, Ben, 1932- 1989

  • Nigel turns his opticals downward, to see his own hydrasteel carapace, where spatterings of brown mar the robot's serial numbers, dribbling off in streaks toward the ground.

    Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984

  • The spatterings of radio singsong shift and click.

    Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984

  • Suspended from the point of the canopy was a lamp of a dull red color, which with rain spatterings and droppings, and a long-standing accumulation of cobwebs and dust had grown barely translucent, and must have emitted but a sickly light at night-fall.

    The Doctor's Daughter [pseud.] Vera

  • The list of table linen is incomplete without a damask carving cloth to match each tablecloth, which it protects from spatterings from the platter.

    The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907

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