How to Use spatter in a Sentence

spatter

1 of 2 verb

• The dog jumped in the pool and spattered us with water.
• He showed me how to use the paintbrush so the paint wouldn't spatter.
• His clothes were spattered with paint.
• When you cook bacon, the grease spatters everywhere.
• In front of the house, blood was spattered on the sidewalk.
  — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 9 July 2017
• The lunch counter was spattered and smeared, a Covid petri dish.
  — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
• The air is sweet and the sun has broken through the clouds and spattering rain.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2017
• His face was spattered with blood and the wires from the stun gun were still wrapped around his leg.
  — Bree Burkitt, azcentral, 17 July 2019
• There were drawings scrawled on the wall, a desk spattered in paint.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• Frank Spencer's blood spattered against this frame and this door.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2019
• He was dressed in jeans, a T-shirt and tennis shoes spattered with white paint.
  — Ralph Chapoco, al, 9 Aug. 2023
• Her apartment was in disarray and blood was spattered on her bed and a wall.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
• Lava flows have increased, spattering molten rock that hit a man in a leg.
  — Caleb Jones, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2018
• Place steak at least 4 inches below the broiler unit; do not place pan too close to flame or oil may spatter and burn.
  — Lucy Saunders, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2018
• Fingernail-sized hail spattered the tents for a short time as low spots in the land along the bayou filled with a few inches of water.
  — Michael Democker, NOLA.com, 19 May 2018
• The gator chomps down and the melon splits open, spattering blue goo everywhere.
  — Michaela N. Vincent, CNN, 8 June 2018
• Taking care to avoid being spattered if the caramel bubbles over, add ¼ cup of water to stop the cooking.
  — CBS News, 15 Feb. 2020
• The candles in the chandeliers overflowed and spattered wax on the clothes of the fancy people below.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• The walls were spattered, from baseboard to ceiling, in blood and so much pooled on the floor that the police had to build a makeshift bridge to get to the body without tramping through it.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 23 July 2019
• Blood was spattered throughout much of the living room and kitchen, an arrest warrant said.
  — Linda Trischitta, Sun-Sentinel.com, 16 June 2017
• The poison in question has spattered from the tips of African weapons for centuries, rubbing out wild beasts and halting the hearts of warriors.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2018
• Too much risk of getting spattered with flying blood (fake) or the innards of eggs (real).
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
• On the more-advanced back side, a man skied up alongside Kautzman, scarlet blood from his face spattering the fresh white snow.
  — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
• In addition, an illegible word was written on the back of the statue, and blue paint was spattered around the base.
  — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 24 July 2019
• Carefully add the tofu, one piece at a time and watching out for spattering hot oil.
  — Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit, 7 Feb. 2018
• One that opened Saturday night was spattering, but no flow had formed.
  — Washington Post, 14 May 2018
• Hot vapor emerged from a crack and spattering lava began to erupt.
  — Caleb Jones, Fox News, 5 May 2018
• Police officers had no idea that the way blood dripped across the floor or spattered against the wall could help them decipher how a murder took place.
  — Skip Hollandsworth, Esquire, 5 Apr. 2016
• Basquiat is dressed in an Armani suit, barefoot, dreadlocked, paint-spattered.
  — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 24 June 2018
• Controlling everything through the screen means less chance of your phone being spattered with grease.
  — Wilson Rothman, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017

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spatter

2 of 2 noun

• There was a lot of paint spatter on the floor.
• There were grease spatters all over the wall.
• The floor was covered with spatters of paint.
• There was blood spatter on the walls and the body was nearly nude.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2022
• Make sure the nozzle is clear of spatter and that the wire tip is clean.
  — Phillip Pantuso, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2015
• There were blood spatters on the dresser, bed and floor, deputies said.
  — David Harris, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• The eruption has built a spatter cone, which is close to what the name implies.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2021
• If Lizzie was the killer, wouldn't she be covered in blood spatter?
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2021
• Reports The next showed a close-up of the spatter, as well as an empty shelf.
  — Lizzy Rosenberg, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2023
• One plug was found amid blood spatters on the pavement.
  — Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2018
• According to police, blood spatter was found in the home and in the trunk of Jones’ car.
  — Tandra Smith | [e-mail], al, 27 Sep. 2021
• And that's why the blood spatter was so important in this case.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2020
• Carefully add the cheese to the hot oil, standing back to avoid spatter.
  — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 2 Feb. 2022
• Travis McMichael is shown with blood on his arms and shirt, with blood spatter also on his jeans and face.
  — Pamela Kirkland, CNN, 9 Nov. 2021
• Blood pooled on the living room floor and spatters turned the white walls red, some reaching more than 12 feet high.
  — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2019
• Often the spatter of drops did no more than leave dark spots on pavement.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 15 May 2022
• Casseroles and desserts can still bubble over, but greasy spatters in the oven are far less likely.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• Crime scene video shown during the trial showed blood spatter on the walls of the home, on the blades of a ceiling fan and on doors and pieces of wood.
  — Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News, 13 May 2018
• The blood spatter found could place Murdaugh in close contact with at least one of the victims when they were killed, the source said.
  — Randi Kaye, CNN, 14 July 2022
• Which meant there should be blood spatter on the gun as well, seeing as it was fired about an inch from the victim’s head.
  — oregonlive, 6 July 2021
• And, of course, as these are death scenes, realistic blood spatter on the walls.
  — CBS News, 14 Jan. 2018
• Chlorine bleach is cheap but spatters can burn your eyes and skin and ruin your clothes.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• There was a bloody pillow and blood spatter down the hallway, Houston said.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 3 June 2023
• The defense argued that shooting at that close a range would have left more blood spatter on Singh.
  — The Enquirer, 22 Oct. 2022
• Perhaps a spritz of lemon, a spatter of sugar, a shake of cinnamon.
  — Leah Eskin, charlotteobserver, 7 Sep. 2017
• Officers found the weapon with one spent shell casing in the bedroom, along with some blood spatter.
  — cleveland, 19 Dec. 2019
• Stites, court documents say, described the blood spatter on Camm's clothing to his boss over the phone.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 10 Sep. 2019
• Julie Ann Bonds died from a brutal attack that left deep cuts to her skull and a spatter of puncture wounds all over the left side of her chest.
  — CBS News, 14 Mar. 2022
• Don’t spray water onto flare-ups; you could get burned by hot, greasy spatters.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2020
• Some of the lava did reach the surface as a few small spatter cones are found along the linear chain of vents related to Blue Lake.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2016

Last Updated: 28 May 2024