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- noun Plural form of
splashing .
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Examples
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With the exception of the hole in the tower, and a few splintered and starred "splashings" where the missiles had struck, very little actual injury seemed to have been inflicted, notwithstanding the excellent practice of the _Su-chen's_ gunners.
A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas Harry Collingwood 1886
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Daughtry cried, at sight of the whale flurrying the water with aimless, gigantic splashings.
CHAPTER XV 2010
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Calls and cries and splashings of water from beyond
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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Then they heard splashings from the pool, and they hurried down to it.
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There are accidental splashings and deliberately mean ones.
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This led to what might be considered a precursor to the splashings -- stenciled-letters reading "SOLD TO MOMA" spray-painted atop of SWOON pieces throughout the city.
Willy Blackmore: In a Swoon: A Brief History of Love and Bombing 2008
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In the show's final gallery of nudes, the stunning and probably once-in-a-lifetime lineup of Titian's "Venus and Cupid with an Organist," Goya's "Naked Maja" and Manet's "Olympia" is interspersed with several garish and crudely near-pornographic late Picassos that look like the secondary splashings of a spoiled child.
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On Thursday, splashings could be faintly heard over the roar of 18-month-old hip-hop hits, each dropping Ping-Pong bomb the sound of another young American becoming slightly more intoxicated.
The Transom 2006
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On Thursday, splashings could be faintly heard over the roar of 18-month-old hip-hop hits, each dropping Ping-Pong bomb the sound of another young American becoming slightly more intoxicated.
The Transom 2006
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On Thursday, splashings could be faintly heard over the roar of 18-month-old hip-hop hits, each dropping Ping-Pong bomb the sound of another young American becoming slightly more intoxicated.
The Transom 2006
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