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: a spot or mark (as of color or ink) especially when large or irregular
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Examples of blotch in a Sentence
Verb
blotched the bedroom walls with various shades of blue to give them a textured effect
my pen leaked and blotched my shirt pocket
Noun
blotches on the tree's leaves
a dog with a single small blotch of black
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Thomas Palmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Still, in the contents of this collection, some blotched with stray fingerprints or grease splatters, O’Keeffe left traces of her daily effort to maintain Abiquiu as a sanctuary.
—Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020
Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2024
This fungal disease appears as gray blotches on the bark, eventually developing into sunken cankers.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2024
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Verb
His guests, their faces blotched from exertion, stare upward in dismay.
—Thomas Palmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Still, in the contents of this collection, some blotched with stray fingerprints or grease splatters, O’Keeffe left traces of her daily effort to maintain Abiquiu as a sanctuary.
—Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020
Noun
The horse chestnut leaf blotch pathogen overwinters as fruiting bodies in leaves infected during the previous season.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2024
This fungal disease appears as gray blotches on the bark, eventually developing into sunken cankers.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Blotch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blotch. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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