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Example sentences for "blotches"

Lexicographically close words:
blossoms; blossomy; blot; blotch; blotched; blotchy; blots; blotted; blotter; blotters
  1. Webb's face had gone from red to the color of suet and the blotches stood sharply out against the pallor.

  2. Afterward he had a distinct recollection of Two-Bits slipping along the wall, looking at him over his shoulder with the freckles showing in great blotches against his white skin.

  3. They lay three, and sometimes four, eggs which have a creamy white ground color, finely dotted with cinnamon, and with heavy blotches of brown.

  4. The eggs have a creamy ground and are sprinkled with dots and blotches of various shades of brown.

  5. Some eggs contain hardly a speck of the purple-grey, while others have considerable blotches of that colour scattered amongst the red spots.

  6. The eggs were of a dull pinkish hue, very thickly marked with small specks and blotches of brownish crimson.

  7. Some blotches in some eggs are almost carmine-red, but the majority are brownish red or reddish brown, varying much in depth and intensity of colour.

  8. In one egg the markings may be almost exclusively confined to a broad, very irregular zone of bold blotches near the large end.

  9. Here and there a few larger spots or small irregular blotches occur.

  10. In some eggs the markings are pretty large irregular blotches mingled with small spots and specks, but in many eggs again the largest spot does not exceed one twelfth of an inch in diameter.

  11. The eggs are of a glossy leaden white, with leaden-coloured blotches and spots towards the larger end, sometimes forming a ring round the larger end and at times spreading over the entire egg.

  12. In some eggs small dingy brownish-purple spots and little blotches are intermingled in the zone.

  13. They have 51 and 54 dark blotches on the body.

  14. The posterior part of the body and tail of each bears well-defined blotches (dark brown or black) with buffy interspaces; the dorsal blotches are sometimes arranged in pairs.

  15. The sentence of Emancipation is the specific whose operation will be vital, by effecting an alteration in the system, and soon annihilating that condition of the blood which feeds our fevers and rushes in disgusting blotches to the face.

  16. Its ground colour was a dirty grey, upon which occurred large, irregular blotches or markings of dull black with a few splashes of brilliant red here and there.

  17. At first small red blotches or pimples appear, and these gradually spread as the parasites multiply and burrow under the skin.

  18. The hair will have a roughened appearance, the back arched, the eyes inflamed and discharging pus, red blotches will show themselves back of the ears, inside the legs and on the abdomen.

  19. Their single eggs are laid on ledges of cliffs; they are not nearly as pointed at the smaller end, as murre eggs, and are always grayish white in color, marked with blackish blotches (3.

  20. Eggs laid on the ground, usually under low, spreading branches of spruces; bright buff with bold black blotches (1.

  21. Their ground-color is pale creamy white, usually very heavily marked with spots and blotches of very pale lilac and light chocolate-brown.

  22. Ground-color pale pinkish white, a heavily, marked irregular zone of dull red toward the larger end, and some scattered spots and blotches of the same color over the rest of the shell, with here and there underlying brown markings.

  23. The ground-color is white, closely speckled with dull greenish brown and occasional small spots of various shades of lilac, the larger end rather thickly marked with blotches of blackish brown.

  24. Ground-color very pale pinkish white, sparingly marked all over with small blotches and minute dots of light red and pale violet-gray under-markings, the latter forming a more or less distinct zone round the larger pole.

  25. They are heavily blotched and spotted with a rich light chocolate-brown, the blotches being more numerous at the larger end, where they are often confluent.

  26. Small spots and fine dots of reddish brown are scattered over the whole shell, but more numerously on the larger end where there are also two large blotches of lavender.

  27. In some, the markings are all small and densely set over the shell; in others, spots are combined with huge blotches which are often confluent.

  28. Occasionally eggs are more boldly marked with spots and small blotches or short scrawls; others are nearly immaculate.

  29. The outer two rectrices with terminal white blotches of variable extent on the inner webs.

  30. On some eggs the drab marks are the most prevalent, with fewer but more prominent spots or blotches of dark brown shades, such as "Mars brown" and "mummy brown.

  31. The markings tend to form a wreath around the large end where, on the heavily-marked types, the blotches overlap the undertones and an almost endless number of shades are formed.

  32. Although the eggs are usually well marked, sometimes with blotches a quarter of an inch in diameter, often they are only finely speckled with the gray undertones.

  33. The spots and blotches show an even greater variety of colors.

  34. Others are richly spotted and blotched equally with browns and drabs, or they may have a solid ring of "russet" blotches which completely covers and conceals the drab undertones.

  35. Many interesting effects are found on the boldly marked eggs, where the large brown blotches are superimposed on the drab undertones.

  36. The common water-snake (Natrix sipedon) is brownish with back and sides each with a series of about 80 large square dark blotches alternating with each other.

  37. The copperhead (Agkistrodon contortix) is light chestnut in color, with inverted Y-shaped darker blotches on the sides, and seldom exceeds three feet in length.

  38. A dozen or more species of Amblystoma occur in North America, of which tigrinum, a dark-brown species with many irregular yellow blotches sometimes arranged in cross-bands, is the most widespread.

  39. As I looked up the valley, I could see others dismounted, and many vast dark blotches on the gray.

  40. He led us here and there and showed dried blotches on the soil, half buried now in the shifting sand; showed us the bodies of a half-dozen ponies, killed a couple of hundred yards from the door of the dugout.

  41. The eggs are oblong-oval in form, pointed at one extremity, and marked with pale purple blotches and a few deep dark purplish-brown dashes upon a light bluish-white background.

  42. They are generally marked, quite profusely, with blotches of deep chocolate-brown, so as to present an almost uniform appearance.

  43. They consist of irregular blotches and dots of different shades of brown, interspersed with numerous obscure spots of lilac.

  44. The markings are chiefly blotches of dark purplish-brown, lighter shades of the same color, and peuumbrae of light purple, either by themselves, or surrounding the darker spots.

  45. The eggs of this bird are three in number, ovoidal in shape, and are marked with numerous blackish-brown spots and blotches upon a creamy-drab background.

  46. The spots and blotches are irregularly distributed, but chiefly about the middle and the larger end.

  47. Eggs with the brown background have in addition to the black and dark-brown streaks and dashes which cover the other type, chiefly about the larger extremity, a number of confluent, cloudy blotches of deeper shades of the same color.

  48. There is a ring of dark purple scales with white blotches on them at the base of the petals.

  49. The leaves are stained with purplish-black blotches as in the early Purple Orchis, but they are narrower and taper more to a point.

  50. Their dirty yellowish hue told that they had long been strangers to the laundry: while several crimson-coloured blotches upon them proclaimed that their last wetting had been with blood, not water.

  51. This was further manifest by the faded paint upon her sides, and the dark, dirt-coloured blotches that marked the position of her hawse-holes and scuppers.

  52. Note the brownish color of the back, marked in the adult animal by blotches of lighter gray and numerous scratch marks, presumably tooth rakes.

  53. Individuals are often dark gray to dark purplish gray on the back with pinkish-white blotches on the sides and belly.

  54. Note the prominent dorsal fin and the blotches of grayish-white coloration on the body.

  55. The body is frequently covered with white or cream-colored blotches (particularly on the belly).

  56. Larger animals retain the chocolate brown color on the back but are often lighter on the sides and the belly and often have irregular patches or blotches of grayish-white coloration on the back and sides.

  57. In adult animals, the belly is often extensively covered with dark blotches but never becomes completely black.

  58. Body dark gray to purplish gray on back with white or pink blotches on sides; belly white.

  59. But red, gray, and brown are also prevailing colors in the rock; occasional veins and blotches of white give lightness to the darker portions; and veins of hematitic and deep umbry tints, variety to the portions that are lighter.

  60. Before him were the purple blotches which the violets made and he could smell the blossoms of the thorn and service berry bushes that looked like fragrant banks of snow.

  61. A Water to prevent Freckles, or Blotches in the Face.

  62. The rest of the lip is white, with the exception of a few irregular blotches of crimson, the number and size and disposition of which vary considerably in different individuals.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blotches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.