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Usage examples of smattering.

The Bogue would be more strongly prepared for battle than the smattering of war junks near Hong Kong.

A few members of the drafting committee had been trained for military government and had a smattering of Japanese.

Brown-eyed Juliet Kei Fyne fought unruly red curls and bemoaned her smattering of freckles, and while she was shorter than her older sister, she was still of a nice height.

Security, along with a healthy smattering of soap stars and minor sporting figures, was a prerequisite of the traditional gangland funeral.

Trilobites and ostracoderms, mostly, with a silvery smattering of teleostean fish, a slimy slither of sea-slugs, and crusty clusters of shelled molluscs and calcichordates.

In over two thousand closely printed pages, it managed to include all the festal days, the Hours of the monastic Office, the complex and elaborate rites once performed between Holy Thursday and Easter Sunday, the psalms and their intonations, a wealth of antiphons, Glorias, Credos, Introits, Graduals, smatterings of Ambrosian and even Gallican chant, and much more.

The murderers spilled into the countryside where the disease had trickled but not entirely blanketing that parish with pandemic, just a smattering that somehow randomly slew different men.

Our popular sciolism is different--it is a smattering not so much of facts as of points of view.

There was a little mining in the area, so there was always a smattering of miners in town buying supplies, getting cleaned up from several months out on their claims, or just raising a little hell before they went back to the supremely boring task of trying to wrest a little wealth from the bowels of stingy Mother Earth.

A smattering of theosophical lore, and a fondness for the speculations of such writers as Colonel Churchward and Lewis Spence concerning lost continents and primal forgotten civilisations, made Reynolds especially alert toward any aeonian relic like the unknown mummy.

Dayuma had forgotten a large part of it, and had unwittingly jumbled up Auca, Quichua, a smattering of Spanish, and a little English intonation for good measure.

Martin spoke neither Urdu nor the Baluchi dialect, and the man from Karachi spoke only a smattering of Pashto, with sign language and some Arabic from the Koran they got along well.

He slipped into Bengali, then a smattering of French, then a torrent of Hindi.

A smattering of botflies flitted closer to shore, of a different sort than Sou-Hon Perreault rode.

Normally my refrigerator contains leftover carryout, frozen dinners, condiments, coffee beans, Diet Coke, and milk, with a smattering of slimed-out produce in the bins.