How to Use spatter in a Sentence

spatter

1 of 2 verb
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  • The dog jumped in the pool and spattered us with water.
  • He showed me how to use the paintbrush so the paint wouldn't spatter.
  • His clothes were spattered with paint.
  • When you cook bacon, the grease spatters everywhere.
  • In front of the house, blood was spattered on the sidewalk.
    — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 9 July 2017
  • The lunch counter was spattered and smeared, a Covid petri dish.
    — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
  • The air is sweet and the sun has broken through the clouds and spattering rain.
    — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2017
  • His face was spattered with blood and the wires from the stun gun were still wrapped around his leg.
    — Bree Burkitt, azcentral, 17 July 2019
  • There were drawings scrawled on the wall, a desk spattered in paint.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Frank Spencer's blood spattered against this frame and this door.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2019
  • He was dressed in jeans, a T-shirt and tennis shoes spattered with white paint.
    — Ralph Chapoco, al, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Her apartment was in disarray and blood was spattered on her bed and a wall.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
  • Lava flows have increased, spattering molten rock that hit a man in a leg.
    — Caleb Jones, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2018
  • Place steak at least 4 inches below the broiler unit; do not place pan too close to flame or oil may spatter and burn.
    — Lucy Saunders, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Fingernail-sized hail spattered the tents for a short time as low spots in the land along the bayou filled with a few inches of water.
    — Michael Democker, NOLA.com, 19 May 2018
  • The gator chomps down and the melon splits open, spattering blue goo everywhere.
    — Michaela N. Vincent, CNN, 8 June 2018
  • Taking care to avoid being spattered if the caramel bubbles over, add ¼ cup of water to stop the cooking.
    — CBS News, 15 Feb. 2020
  • The candles in the chandeliers overflowed and spattered wax on the clothes of the fancy people below.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
  • The walls were spattered, from baseboard to ceiling, in blood and so much pooled on the floor that the police had to build a makeshift bridge to get to the body without tramping through it.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 23 July 2019
  • Blood was spattered throughout much of the living room and kitchen, an arrest warrant said.
    — Linda Trischitta, Sun-Sentinel.com, 16 June 2017
  • The poison in question has spattered from the tips of African weapons for centuries, rubbing out wild beasts and halting the hearts of warriors.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Too much risk of getting spattered with flying blood (fake) or the innards of eggs (real).
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
  • On the more-advanced back side, a man skied up alongside Kautzman, scarlet blood from his face spattering the fresh white snow.
    — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
  • In addition, an illegible word was written on the back of the statue, and blue paint was spattered around the base.
    — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 24 July 2019
  • Carefully add the tofu, one piece at a time and watching out for spattering hot oil.
    — Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit, 7 Feb. 2018
  • One that opened Saturday night was spattering, but no flow had formed.
    — Washington Post, 14 May 2018
  • Hot vapor emerged from a crack and spattering lava began to erupt.
    — Caleb Jones, Fox News, 5 May 2018
  • Police officers had no idea that the way blood dripped across the floor or spattered against the wall could help them decipher how a murder took place.
    — Skip Hollandsworth, Esquire, 5 Apr. 2016
  • Basquiat is dressed in an Armani suit, barefoot, dreadlocked, paint-spattered.
    — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 24 June 2018
  • In the bottom map of the trio above, the green spattered across the central US indicates up to a 30 percent rise in precipitation between the two time frames.
    — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
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spatter

2 of 2 noun
  • There was a lot of paint spatter on the floor.
  • There were grease spatters all over the wall.
  • The floor was covered with spatters of paint.
  • There was blood spatter on the walls and the body was nearly nude.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Make sure the nozzle is clear of spatter and that the wire tip is clean.
    — Phillip Pantuso, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2015
  • There were blood spatters on the dresser, bed and floor, deputies said.
    — David Harris, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The eruption has built a spatter cone, which is close to what the name implies.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2021
  • If Lizzie was the killer, wouldn't she be covered in blood spatter?
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Reports The next showed a close-up of the spatter, as well as an empty shelf.
    — Lizzy Rosenberg, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2023
  • One plug was found amid blood spatters on the pavement.
    — Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2018
  • According to police, blood spatter was found in the home and in the trunk of Jones’ car.
    — Tandra Smith | [email protected], al, 27 Sep. 2021
  • And that's why the blood spatter was so important in this case.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Carefully add the cheese to the hot oil, standing back to avoid spatter.
    — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Travis McMichael is shown with blood on his arms and shirt, with blood spatter also on his jeans and face.
    — Pamela Kirkland, CNN, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Blood pooled on the living room floor and spatters turned the white walls red, some reaching more than 12 feet high.
    — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Often the spatter of drops did no more than leave dark spots on pavement.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 15 May 2022
  • Casseroles and desserts can still bubble over, but greasy spatters in the oven are far less likely.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Crime scene video shown during the trial showed blood spatter on the walls of the home, on the blades of a ceiling fan and on doors and pieces of wood.
    — Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News, 13 May 2018
  • The blood spatter found could place Murdaugh in close contact with at least one of the victims when they were killed, the source said.
    — Randi Kaye, CNN, 14 July 2022
  • Which meant there should be blood spatter on the gun as well, seeing as it was fired about an inch from the victim’s head.
    — oregonlive, 6 July 2021
  • And, of course, as these are death scenes, realistic blood spatter on the walls.
    — CBS News, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Chlorine bleach is cheap but spatters can burn your eyes and skin and ruin your clothes.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
  • There was a bloody pillow and blood spatter down the hallway, Houston said.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 3 June 2023
  • The defense argued that shooting at that close a range would have left more blood spatter on Singh.
    — The Enquirer, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Perhaps a spritz of lemon, a spatter of sugar, a shake of cinnamon.
    — Leah Eskin, charlotteobserver, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Officers found the weapon with one spent shell casing in the bedroom, along with some blood spatter.
    — cleveland, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Stites, court documents say, described the blood spatter on Camm's clothing to his boss over the phone.
    — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Julie Ann Bonds died from a brutal attack that left deep cuts to her skull and a spatter of puncture wounds all over the left side of her chest.
    — CBS News, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Don’t spray water onto flare-ups; you could get burned by hot, greasy spatters.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2020
  • Some of the lava did reach the surface as a few small spatter cones are found along the linear chain of vents related to Blue Lake.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2016

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