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US
/ˈspɫæʃɪŋ/
]
[ UK /splˈæʃɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /splˈæʃɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- the act of scattering water about haphazardly
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
How To Use splashing In A Sentence
- Daughtry cried, at sight of the whale flurrying the water with aimless, gigantic splashings. CHAPTER XV
- At the top end of the glen darts of sunshine poked through the billowing clouds and encouraged us to go for it and, fully rigged up in waterproofs, we were soon splashing our way up into the Lairig Eilde.
- That includes splashing out on three deckchairs with matching beach huts for the patio. The Sun
- By night they roost in the gently flowing shallows of the Platte, shin-deep in cool water, or else on sandbars, giving them warning against any predator that might come splashing out.
- Next, something brushed past him, and he encountered it with a snarl and a splashing of his forepaws. CHAPTER XX
- Four lanes of canal with a street beneath it, an occasional car splashing by. THE HUNDREDTH MAN
- But others of the Muscovite band were fond of congregating at this spot and hour for their lustral summer rites -- white-skinned lads and lasses, matrons and reverent elders, all in a state of Adamitic nudity, splashing about the water of this sunny cover, devouring raw fish and crabs after the manner of the fabled Ichthyophagi, laughing, kissing, saying nice things about God, and combing out each other's long tow-coloured hair. South Wind
- I loved the endless hours I spent splashing in streams, eating blackberries off the bush, catching trout, walking the woods, sunning on rocks, listening to banjos and dulcimers.
- The children whined, splashing each other and Knazarath a few more times, but then followed the guard to the bedroom obediently, if a bit noisily.
- Stuff has been happening, but it's all kind of introspective, sad stuff that isn't that easy to write, even if I did have any intention of splashing it all over the web.