What is "splotch"

Usage examples of "splotch".

Abstract expressionist paintings hung on the walls, splotches of colors communicating a welter of emotions.

An amber splotch, that was all, trickling to the parquetry floor, puddling as though a dog had urinated in the corner.

Carl Speckler, kneeling, touched the splotch that had dried on the natty carpet to the right of the door.

No q-balls full of squarks, no strange matter, not even a splotch of space-born long-chain molecules, or the cold remains of Hydrogen-3- No profit.

Now it was suddenly Indian summer in the forest and the hardwoods were a brilliant deep yellow and red, shifting away in the haze to umbrous hills with splotches of white birch and green pine.

Yes, there was the lake, an amoeboid splotch of liquid silver almost in the center of the periscope screen, its mirrorlike surface broken by a spattering of black islets.

Between the window and the court, Gats saw a blurred splotch of blackness.

The gyri were plump and choked with fluid, and she saw the bruise at once: a purplish-black splotch fanning around the implant like a squashed bug.

His deeply creased, weatherworn face was splotched with pink, windburned patches.

Only her hands had really aged, the palms and fingerpads shining and tight, the backs wrinkled and splotched with brown.

But everywhere the human stamp could be seen, in towns and suburbs, near farms, along the sides of greenways, the green was striped and splotched with a lighter green and speckled with creamy blossoms.

The hills of New Mexico, splotched with green shrublike trees, folded in around him.

Without answering she swallowed hard, feeling her fledgling hope die a sudden death The room spun around her in a dizzying circle of faces and brightly colored sweaters and big splotches of sunlight.

He had just buckled the swordbelt about his waist when he chanced to notice the red-brown blotch on the mattress and the trail of crusty splotches leading from the bed to the door.

Queueing at the snack stall with all the other weight problems and skin conditions, among the multiple single mothers in crayon-color beachwear, the splat and splotch of English skin, beneath treated hair, and all the sticky children each needing its tin of drink, Richard watched the joggers pounding the outer track in scissoring shellsuits of magenta, turquoise, of lime or sherwood green.