Broad and unorganized

Usage examples of scattershot.

As the winds of November shrieked and the snow blew like scattershot, the pack huddled together in the depths of the palace, around a fire that was never allowed to burn too high or completely extinguish.

She began to issue scattershot orders on practically everything, but it was clear that she wanted to keep the whole incident, even the revolutionary thing they had done, completely under wraps until she had taken it all up with the director and possibly the boards and determined a consistent cover.

The troops came scattershot up the slope, running raggedly from cover to cover.

Hours later, crickets chirruped and nightjars cooed as evening stippled the jungle canopy with scattershot stars.

Randy was scattershot, but he was a lot less likely to spill truly important things.

There was a stab of magenta, a rapid twinkle of sapphire and cyan, then a scattershot of moving saffron and ruby dots on the icy wall.

The scattershot confusion of her thoughts collected into relief as she saw me.

Squeezing her eyes shut against a future-past that only her orphaned symbiont could see, Jadzia bowed her head over the tangle of their fingers, and light flashed scattershot across the surface of the pool.

Her voice was hoarse and raw from her long sleep, the magic badly managed and scattershot at best, but it was enough.

There was no way of knowing how wide a margin of error had been allowed during the early attempts to set up the Station, and the scattershot technique of hurling material into the past had been pretty unreliable.

Mourners moved toward the church from scattershot spots in the parking lot.

Dubrillion with his makeshift fleet, digging in their heels there, and trying to hold out long enough for battle cruisers and Star Destroyers to arrive - though if they came in scattershot, he realized, they would run the risk of being picked off one by one by the Yuuzhan Vong force.

Without knowing what aspects of Evervillian life would most interest the woman, Phoebe began a scattershot account of life at home.

The March wind was raging beyond the glass, and scattershots of rain and sleet struck the windows before his face.

His sensorium flooded with scattershot pricklings, tripped open by some freeing signal.