Things dispersed haphazardly

Usage examples of scatterings.

The main fall of water slid in a crystal sheet just behind his shoulders with scatterings of drops spraying forwards on to him like rain.

Clearly, atomic humankind continued to explode on its Scatterings of Scatterings.

The Scatterings had gone beyond the ability of humans to assemble the experiences in manageable form.

He made the two-thousand-mile hop to Foundation in a surface transporter skimming at 10,000 feet through the twilight beneath Titan's cloud canopy above a wilderness of ice and rock, broken at intervals by scatterings of lights from a habitat or some kind of construction in progress.

The hills were bare humps of sediment left by the receding oceanic floods, beginning to show scatterings of grass and other vegetation over the upper slopes, but with denser growths still hugging the valleys and hollows.

Cartons, cases, drums, and debris were everywhere, with scatterings of dead cartridge cases, oddments of ammunition, tangles of wire, emptied food cans and rations packs, remnants of clothing.