How To Use Spatter In A Sentence

Spittle and blood spattered his lips, dripping in my mouth. Brush of Darkness
Prosecutors say he is tied to the crime by witnesses, blood spatters, ballistics and DNA analysis.
Some makers still bolster these paints with components like formaldehyde, crystalline silica, acetone and ammonia to help preserve the paint or give it other properties, such as spatter-resistance. Painting Without That Smell
In that context, I found phrases like these kind of disconcerting and hard to read: the passions of his bewildered heart … a maelstrom of melancholicaly erupted emotion … causing a bit of the guilt to spatter through his brow … that would never permit his repression, never allow for nothing short of predetermined apocalyptic salvation. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum
Dark drops spattered on the ground and she stilled.

She watched as it spattered on the ground far below.
Walker, standing at the foot of the shaft waiting for the answering signal from above, heard the noise and the rush of Mag's body as it bumped from side to side in its mad descent, and starting back, he was just in time to get clear as the mangled mass of rags and blood and pulpy flesh fell with a loud splashy thud at the bottom, the blood spattering and "jauping" him and the bottomer, and blinding their eyes as it flew all over them. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
Even when, later still, the general's eager hand, stretching forth for the dusky flagon (it was sacrilege to sweep away those insignia of age and respectability), managed to capsize the candelabrum and sent the fluid "adamantine" spattering a treasured table-cloth (how quick the dash of the young trooper's hand upon the flame -- and its extinction!), a gentle smile was the sole rebuke, followed by a "Thank you, Mr. Harris. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
It occupies the entire 6-foot-high composition, with ink spatters, sgraffito and handprints enlivening the surface.
Rytlock spat a gobbet of blood, which spattered the ground. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
The ball was a deep sepia, veneered with dirt and turf and generational sweat—it was old, bunged up, it was bashed and tobacco-juiced and stained by natural processes and by the lives behind it, weather-spattered and charactered as a seafront house. Underworld
Using an undercoat by spattering acrylics, I finish off the surface of the sculpture with oil paints with the aid of an airbrush.
Jason finally sprinted ahead, and jumped into the pool, spattering us with water.
The first sign she had that the house was beginning to unknit was a spatter of cold rain on her head. SACRAMENT
His shirt was bespattered with blood, and it was this that attracted suspicion to him as he stepped from his car.
In the meantime, a sudden cloud had appeared, and a few large drops of rain spattered the courtyard.
The trousers were bespattered with mud.
The next snowfall was half-hearted, the brief shower of semi-liquid slush spattering on the windowpanes and freezing when night came again.
His body sank sideways in the same direction, the head lolling nervelessly upon his right shoulder, whilst from the great rent in his breast the blood gushed forth, embruing the water of his bath, trickling to the brick-paved floor, bespattering -- symbolically almost -- a copy of L'Ami du Peuple, the journal to which he had devoted so much of his uneasy life. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series
They were stunned to find the back spattered with blood. The Sun
All of his clothes were covered in paint spatters.
Rain spattered down like bolts. Times, Sunday Times
Delicious cold spray spattered my face. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
The best book that I have found for readability on the subject, and without losing me along the way with uber-florid prose about artists in smocks, mixing cerulean blue pigment on their paint spattered pallets as the fisherman hauled in pilchards at their feet, is The Shining Sands Artists in Newlyn and St Ives 1880-1930 by Tom Cross. A day in Cornwall
The following conversation occurred after the recent spattering of sapphic portrayals in the diva world.
Plosh!" went Mr Jones right in backwards; and "spatter" went the foul mud all over his face and shirt-front, and then the poor little man tried to scramble out, but slipped in again, making himself worse than ever; but his next effort was more successful; and when Sam saw him standing amongst the potatoes looking all piebald, his heart was joyful within him, as he hurried home to tell the boys the success of their plot. Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home
Anyway, there was a spatter of water just pouring off this lip.
Some of the pieces were raw iron spattered with rust from being left open to the elements.
The corpse lay facedown in the mud, his bottle green coat twisted up around his chest, mud and blood spattering his buckskin breeches, a spent pistol clutched in his cold hand. Earl of Durkness
He was a somewhat diminutive boy, clad in a velvet suit with a lace collar, both of which were plentifully bespattered with mud.
The police were in a BMW with blood spattered on it. Times, Sunday Times
She was like a camellia that has opened its dew-spattered petals slowly to an insistent sun. FLOATING CITY
He was without kith or kin, a lonely old man, embittered and pessimistic, fighting vermin the while and looking at Garibaldi, Engels, and Dan Burns gazing down at him from the blood-bespattered walls. DAN CULLEN, DOCKER
The subaltern was a lean young redhead from the north continent, his fair face spattered with gold freckles from the tropic sun. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
I rolled to the side and I coughed, and I saw a small spatter of blood fall to the floor.
I measured the flour, two cups, into my favorite green-and-blue spatterware bowl. Younger
Two bikes raced by and spattered mud over our clothes.
Mowbray's body crashed against the earth, his brains spattering as the sharp, icy cobbles crushed his skull.
Even for the period that seems a bit … light, especially when the vampire is then described as ripping out her throat, which makes me think of huge chunks of flesh and bloody gore spattering everywhere. Book Review: The Sweetest Kiss « Colleen Anderson
Blood spattered the seats of the vehicle.
Don't spatter the soup onto the table.
She hurls out coloratura like spattered drops of venom. Lucrezia Borgia - review
Colotes therefore has bedashed and bespattered himself and his master with that dirt, in which he says those lie who maintain that things are not more of one quality than another. Essays and Miscellanies
It occupies the entire 6-foot-high composition, with ink spatters, sgraffito and handprints enlivening the surface.
It's depressing when your mind becomes a sewer of spattering hate and impatience that you don't remember asking for.
As the bus passed, it spattered us with mud.
Passing traffic has spattered the wall up with mud.
Blood spattered the dark concrete.
Only in some hollow of a larger tree on the sheltered side may be seen a few scattered leaves of some close-clinging creeper, or the hardy leaves of the tataramoa, bespattered with mud.
Gently turn the fish, being careful not to spatter any hot butter on yourself.
It glinted in the sunlight, sending a bright spatter of colour over the cement.
Her hands were red and raw and the front of her tunic was bespattered with water stains and soapsuds, but she still had another pile to go.
Reed staggered back as blood poured down his face, spattering red across his shoulder and chest. The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Seven
He was disheveled, soused with water, bespattered with mud, his round face very pale, and he fixed a wild stare on the company … Archive 2009-01-01
a blood-spattered room
His fair locks, which the Russian was used to wash every morning, he was now bidden to bedaub with grease and flour, while he energetically cursed the black spatterdashes which it took him an hour to button every morning. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality
He coughed out blood and more blood bespattered us.
He slammed into the opposing wall, spattering it with blood.
Rytlock spat a gobbet of blood, which spattered the ground. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
All these spatter vents were closely aligned along a north-south trend, and constituted the main eruptive fracture, whose activity was accompanied by strong degassing.
He sauntered across the lawn to where she stood, a smile splitting his thin face as he saw how bespattered with paint she was.
He had big splay feet, short stout legs, and a body of such bulging bulbosity that all the droppings of his spoon -- which were many -- were caught on the round of his black waistcoat, which always looked as if it had just been spattered by a gray shower. The House with the Green Shutters
He stared at the rain spattering on the glass.
I raised my head I heard the groans of dying men, and a warm stream of new-shed blood bespattered me where I lay close to my murdered master as he gave up the ghost. Rhesus
As far as I can tell, your argument, which you inist Mr. Sidgwick must accept if he wishes to avoid being bespattered with innuendo about Final Solutions, is as follows: if the phantasms I, John Roosevelt, conjure up are true representations of reality, then a negotiated settlement is impossible; therefore, a negotiated settlement is impossible. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
All three were spattered with blood. Times, Sunday Times
So when the poultice-walloper shook his head over Oliver, and glanced towards me, lying there all blood-spattered and pathetic, I was ready with a feeble gesture to keep him at a distance - the last thing I wanted was the little bugger poking at me and exclaiming: THE NUMBERS
He lands in - perhaps he lives there - an ancient and gigantic fig tree, and in the morning proves that your sighting was no product of a late night out, he having spattered the footpath below with great dollops of ordure.
Blood from the griffon spattered Jag's front, ichor from Ragarol dripped down his back.
You needn't brown the meat (so no spatters); just simmer it gently with a few herbs and spices in broth until it's tender.
His clothes were liberally spattered with mud.
At one time it was "spattering," when all faces and fingers had a tendency to smudges of India ink; and there was hardly a fine comb or tooth-brush fit for use in the establishment. What Katy Did at School
Canvas spatterdashes with full canvas feet and a leather sole were called ‘mud boots.’
He had breeches of the same, with rows of buttons from the hips to the knees; a pink silk handkerchief round his neck, gathered through a ring, on the bosom of a neatly-plaited shirt; a sash round the waist to match; bottinas, or spatterdashes, of the finest russet leather, elegantly worked, and open at the calf to show his stockings and russet shoes, setting off a well-shaped foot. The Alhambra
When you see a picture of some mud-spattered lunatic on a 4,000 mile ride through Africa, the lunatic tends to be sitting on a BMW.
His car is bespattered with mud.
The rain spatters on the windows and doors heavily.
These spatter cones contain little, if any, fine-grained ashy material and are amongst the most characteristic products of Hawaiian eruptions.
Their surfaces are accretions of controlled gestures, spatters of paint that lead from one stroke to another, singular and serial actions.
This will cause the paint to spatter on the surface.
Thick daubs and spatters of paint represent the fruit and jugs.
Based on the composition and texture differences of the cones, the cones have been subdivided into scoria cone, spatter cone and mixed cone.
Blood spattered her black robe and she cringed.
he heard a spatter of gunfire
Long swim the right that net reservation takes law to act to the behavior of bespatter of relevant and concoctive fact, bring a false charge against sb.
Rain spattered down like bolts. Times, Sunday Times
To prevent flying sparks and spattering wax, use a snuffer instead of blowing out the flame.
Fragments of sunlight pierced the thick canopy, spattering them with shifting flecks of light. End of Time
Where Jackson had sketched his case in broad emotional strokes, she dwelled on the minutiae of blood spatter, "GSR" (gunshot residue), "tape lifts" and other forensic details. Celebrity Justice
To control spatters and the residue of cooking fumes, the entire kitchen should be washed with a good degreaser at least once a week.
Now videogamers can play the role of Ho Chi Minh's communist forces as they rout French colonists in a blood-spattered shoot'em-up. Ho Chi Minh: The Videogame
As I wish to describe these persons as accurately as possible, I may add, he wore a dark-coloured coat, corduroy breeches, and spatterdashes. Redgauntlet
The tidal marshes are dominated by narrowleaf cattail, wild rice, spatterdock and pickerelweed. Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, New York
The beasts looked up from their meals, jowls spattered in red. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
The convoy of mud-spattered four-by-fours has pulled in at the side of the B1224 near Rufforth.
Blood was spattered across the walls. Times, Sunday Times
Not a tired old coulis swiggle or powdery spatter among the lot.
Now videogamers can play the role of Ho Chi Minh's communist forces as they rout French colonists in a blood-spattered shoot'em-up. Ho Chi Minh: The Videogame
The second volley tore through the British ranks, ricocheting off guns and bone, spattering the beach with gobbets of flesh and brain as the redcoat charge was stopped dead in its tracks.
Although blood spattered the walls, the pillar of light still stood.
The bikes spattered them with mud.
This time blood spattered on his hand as he covered his mouth.
The lion head fountain spatters generously over it all, and the tiles are getting crustier. Fountain deposits
He leaps at the trees and hoofs through the bracken, eyes wide in despair; his moonlit pelt spattered by mud and debris as hand-echoed huntcalls shiver the air. The Rik Files
The blood spatter was even more horrible than before.
Black walls are patterned with a brown spatter of knots.
The comic writers of the town, when they had got hold of this story, made much of it, and bespattered him with all the ribaldry they could invent, charging him falsely with the wife of Menippus, one who was his friend and served as lieutenant under him in the wars; and with the birds kept by Pyrilampes, an acquaintance of Pericles, who, they pretended, used to give presents of peacocks to Pericles female friends. Pericles
This is the side of Emanuel that gets obscured by stories about obscenity-bespattered phone calls and gifts of dead fish. Chicago, get ready for Rahm Emanuel's charm offensive
Hard, flat renderings should be avoided, as should pebbledash and spatterdash finishes. Times, Sunday Times
Outside, the sky was dark and I could hear the spitter spatter of rain along with the thunder.
A blue tarpaulin covered the floor and was spattered with blood. Times, Sunday Times
The walls were spattered with blood.
In fact, use a network to derogate, bespatter competitor, had emerged in endlessly.
Some of the ink had blotted already, spattered with black blood as it was - but it was still readable.
The actual paint is slopped and dripped and patched and layered and dabbed and spattered and scumbled and misted, sometimes in a natural-ish pattern, other times more fantastically.
Steady shelling was going on, and there were occasional spatters of machine gun fire through the smashed windows of her refuge.
Someone tossed a melon-rind at Adriana's feet; drops of cool slime spattered her ankles.
They're practical and help protect clothes against spatters and spills.
The rain spattered against the window.
The backs of my legs were bespattered with mud after walking home in the rain.
Checking them over, both were dirty and blood spattered but none of it theirs.
The car bespattered my suit with mud.
Wacko"...that's what he called Gibson, the man who today gave us a 126 minute celebration of non-stop blood-spattered torture in Technicolor and Dolby Stereo Digital. Archive 2004-02-22
Thick daubs and spatters of paint represent the fruit and jugs.
In contrast, Catrin was bespattered and soaked, looking as if she had been wallowing in mud, and she received many disapproving looks as she trotted Salty through town. Discovery Showcase - The Dawning of Power
And then he would bow in his paint-spattered coveralls, the drywall contractor with the dimpled chin and eyes as blue as the lake, and she would curtsy in her polyester slacks and Ban-Lon shirt, the housewife with the waves of hair and the smile that could light up the sky, and they would whirl around the living room while I watched from the kitchen, sheepish but happy. The Hanging Tree
At the call the boarders gathered, naked to the waist, black with powder and spattered with blood, cutlas and pistol in hand. Hero Tales from American History
He screamed, flecks of spit spattering her face.
It's a blue-grey tulle dress with a sequins-spattered skirt and sheer camisole top.
As we danced and drank firewater away from the crush, thug after thug was hauled out of the crowd, some spattered with blood, others merely loaded to the gunwales with stolen booty.
You were so bespattered with mud that I thought you were some old farmer.
Rain began to fall, spattering the ground and the soldiers, washing away the blood and grime in the sudden cloudburst.
It does contain blood-spattered violence, foul language and graphic sex scenes, but they are all performed by puppets.
There was a very brief spatter of rain, evaporating almost instantly as the drops hit the pavement, and then it stopped, the sky cleared, and there was no sign of rain to be seen once more.
Using an undercoat by spattering acrylics, I finish off the surface of the sculpture with oil paints with the aid of an airbrush.
He is a man of about 35, in a deplorable plight, bespattered with mud and blood and snow, his belt and the strap of his revolver-case keeping together the torn ruins.
He keeps things simple compared to the more garrulous contributions of his bandmates, opting for cleanly articulated line rather than a thick spattering of notes.
Graniteware is an enameled tinware that has been used in the kitchen from the late nineteenth century to the present. Earlier graniteware was green or turquoise blue, with white spatters.
Don't spatter the soup onto the table.
They were stunned to find the back spattered with blood. The Sun
When someone expresses surprise that you have children, should you be flattered that you don't fit their vision of a lumpy, harassed nobody in a sick - spattered shell suit?
Various scorch marks and spattered blood let her know she had indeed missed something.
Auditor Karen Flynn, Prosecutor Russ Hauge, and Commissioner Chris Endresen would be well advised to keep their distance to avoid spatter from the lawsuit and Canvassing Board hearing. Sound Politics: Residency Lawsuit Against Kitsap Commissioner Josh Brown Moves Forward
Dipped his pen in the ink, drops spattering the paper like blood. Earl of Durkness
He had a plump face and dark curly hair, a navy blazer and a blue and white striped shirt spattered with blood.
If you hit the stee frame,l the bullet will fragment and the spatter will pop the balloon next to it. Bust a Cap
It was a breathable atmosphere but cold and wet, thanks to the spatter of rainfall against the canopy.
Pale, trembling in every limb, and spattered with the vulture's blood as well as that which trickled from the many wounds he had received, the valiant young cragsman sank helplessly to the ground, where he lay for some minutes, paralyzed with the terrible exertion he had gone through. Harper's Young People, November 18, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly
The car bespattered my suit with mud.
Rain was falling on the plains beyond the window, fat drops spattering soundlessly on the glass.
A job well done, he thought, and watched the rain spatter the spongy rubber cobbles of the midway. Boing Boing: February 26, 2006 - March 4, 2006 Archives
Beyond that were the low shore and the dark wood of pines and the shining leaves of the palmettoes like a lake spattered with the light -- split by their needle points. The Trail Book
We spotted Mr. Schnabel, who arrived in white painter pants bespattered with drops of various shades of paint (no purple pajamas this time!). Julian Schnabel: 'McCain Looked Like a Crotchety, Angry Loser'
Often the pave is a spatter of the fallen mangos, its slippery condition of no import to the barefooted Tahitian, but to the shod a cause of sudden, strange gyrations and gestures, and of irreverence toward the Deity. Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
Isabelle gazed down at her faded denim dungarees which were covered in spatters of colourful paint.
The baby spattered the bib with food
When the Thracian slave Spartacus fights in the arena, vast crowns of blood fan suddenly from head wounds, arms are scythed off, a man bereft of legs is pitchforked in the back, and blood spots spatter the camera lens. John Hannah: 'I play a devious, lying, cheating, ambitious mother******. It's great!'
Steady shelling was going on, and there were occasional spatters of machine gun fire through the smashed windows of her refuge.
The canisters ticked a few seconds before geysering upwards, thick jets of liquid spattering off the ceiling, foaming and filling the space, securing his hunched form in a bubble of packing foam. 365 tomorrows » 2010 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Our journey was very slow, and we were bespattered with mud from head to foot.
He reasoned that standing naked over a hit stove forces you to cook the bacon slowly, over a low heat, so that it doesn't spit and spatter all over the place, speckling your delicate milky flesh with gobbets of hot grease.
Chittenden's who allowed his mind to wander, and did not concentrate, promptly made the acquaintance of the "spatter," a broad leathern strap; and the spatter hurt exceedingly, as I can testify from many personal experiences of it. The Days Before Yesterday
That night the water was steadily creeping higher and higher, while a civil engineer, mud-bespattered, with the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor in his button-hole, was standing on the corner of the sandbag bastion by the Pont de la Concorde and measuring its advance. The Paris Flood of 1910 | Edwardian Promenade
As the bus passed, it spattered us with mud.
And when a pounded away at a shoe, and her young arm going like a flail -- chink, chank -- chink, chank -- and th 'white spatters o' hot iron flying this way and that from th 'anvil, meseemed A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales
The chunky blue spatterware mugs, and the cream dishes. Younger
A blue tarpaulin covered the floor and was spattered with blood. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe more parenting topics, with some productivity posts along the way, spattered with a hint of gadgets and a good dollop of plain oddness. We’re back! : about:blank
The spatter of rain pounded on the windows of what seemed like a apartment loft of some kind.
His reputation was bespattered by malicious gossip.
“Damn you to hell!” he grunted as he clenched his fist tight causing a bit of the guilt to spatter upon his brow. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum
The spatterdashes date from 1748 when the Artillery wore them for the first time in any British Corps.
Gently turn the fish, being careful not to spatter any hot butter on yourself.
Right now it's in the basement, spattered with paint, veteran of many home improvement jobs.
You are not very good at what you do, and I will enjoy your rebuttle of obnoxious spatter that you send my way. Anti-Deer-Hunting Billboard Goes Up in Kansas City
Two bikes raced by and spattered mud over our clothes.
I have to admit that Shirley wasn't quite what I expected -- but then, based on his work I was expecting a seven-foot semen-crusted blood-spattered drugsucking maniac with a hook for a hand and a ring of cranial jacks circling a skull surgically expanded to fit a brain swollen by neurotropic abuse. What I Did Last Night And Why You Should Come To The Makeout Room This Saturday
They could hear raindrops spattering on the roof of the caravan.
She was spattered with rain, but I thought what a pleasant person she looked and was. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
He stared at the rain spattering on the glass.
Hampered by his voluminous soutane, the priest tripped and fell, water and mud flying in spatters all around him. Sick Cycle Carousel
Light spattered down the steps like whitewash off a sloppy painter's brush, but the splashes caught no one.
Peppered with dry wit and classic understatements, this book is a delight to read and my copy shows it, bespattered with grease and finger marks and bent this way and that as I would literally go to sleep with it.
Fabric spats, or spatterdashes, were worn over walking shoes around the turn of the 20th century.
Both he and the vehicle bore orangish spatter marks.
A cursory glance at the list of honorees reminds one of the political underpinnings that dominate the awards 'list with only a spattering of awardees who actually did work for the community, humanity or the environment. Saad Khan: Nobel Peace Prize: For Peace or for Politics?
The last drops of the rainfall spattered heavily against the cobblestones as the storm spent itself and shook itself off.
A spatter of bullets told Hoffman of the attempted attack.
The spoor was easy to follow, for the dragged body of the victim left a plain trail, blood-spattered and scentful. Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Find out where they do their laundry. Spatter all their button-down shirts with dark red dye.
And bones, and blood, and brains the spattered earth bestrow. The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor
A shower of fluid spattered the shaving mirror.
Captain Sinclair actually waddled out of his roundhouse to converse politely with the Governor while the convicts were lined up on deck under the eyes of the marines on duty, eyes bloodshot and breath reeking, but leather stocks and spatterdashes perfect. Morgan’s Run
He is entirely in black broadclothor rather, at present, black and brown, for he is bespattered with mud from his heels to the crown of his low hat.
So tense was he, so bent upon the work he had to do, that the sweat stung his eyes unwiped, and unheeded rolled down his nose and spattered his saddle pommel. War
Blood was spattered across the walls. Times, Sunday Times
He could feel the blood spattering his shoulder.
He heard drops of water spattering stones all around. End of Time
Blood spattered the walls when one of the younger men tried to defend the Inn and his family.
Mr. Thwaite and I were soon liberally spattered as we tried to hold the beast still and I packed the stump with sulphon amide applied a thick pad of cotton wool and bandaged it in a figure eight to the other horn. Every living thing

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