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Example sentences for "spatter"

Lexicographically close words:
spatio; spatious; spatium; spats; spatted; spattered; spattering; spatters; spatula; spatulate
  1. A; c1] spatter or splatter dirt or liquid.

  2. Ayawg pasakpasaka (ipasakpasak) ang pintal sa sawug, Don’t let the paint spatter on the floor.

  3. And the growl of the river, the streaming shreds of the sky, the confusion beneath and about me, the mice and muskrats clinging with me for a foothold--I live it all again at the first spatter of a February rain upon my face.

  4. After a long, cold winter how I love the spatter on my face of the first February rain!

  5. There was a good deal of disjointed information on lavas, ropy or rapid flowing and viscous--also on spatter cones and caverns.

  6. She did not leave the Works until two badly burned men had been carried away, and two dead bodies lifted out of the reek of steam and the spatter of half-chilled metal.

  7. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.

  8. Came a tail-end spatter of rain, and the sky began to clear.

  9. The night was cloudy, dark, with a spatter of rain.

  10. The mist had slimed the whole world with a coating of wet, and when the wind chanced to set the bare limbs of the trees to swaying, the drops would spatter on the ground and scarcely be absorbed, so waterlogged was the earth.

  11. There was no sound, except for the occasional soft spatter of water that dripped to the stone floor from the mouldy ceiling.

  12. The blue of the sea turned as black as night, and soon the rain began to spatter down upon us, and continued to sprinkle and drizzle a considerable time after the wind had subsided.

  13. The raindrops began to spatter down faster, and we took shelter under an impending precipice, where the ledge of rock had been blasted and hewn away to form the road.

  14. A thin pencil of white flame leaped from the instrument to spatter sparks against the already scarred and stained steel.

  15. Near the bottom, where the incline curved to meet the horizontal, he did go down, ploughing up a spatter of loose chips and pebbles.

  16. These stencillings are made by a sort of spatter work, something like that in vogue a generation ago in this country, using leaves, etc.

  17. This was evident because the spatter of musket-fire ceased.

  18. Then out into the mist they launched themselves, swimming almost submerged, dreading to hear an outcry and the spatter of musket balls.

  19. The dead still lay where they fell, the wounded were getting first aid, and you could hear the whining harmonica above the scattering spatter of the shrapnel.

  20. On the walls of the houses we began to see the spatter of shrapnel.

  21. By deflecting the plates as described, the spatter of lead is directed downward, and thus prevents damage to the wood-work around the targets.

  22. From short- range distance there came a spatter of musketry, sweeping along an invisible line, and making faint sheets of orange light.

  23. From time to time a sharp spatter of firing from far picket lines entered this bass chorus.

  24. The spatter of skirmish firing was added to the thunder of the guns on the hill.

  25. And be very careful about the carriage wheels; they spatter you with mud sometimes from head to foot.

  26. As he edged his body through the rift he heard a rifle shot reverberating brokenly through the twisting tunnels, followed by a dogged spatter of response--or was it only echo?

  27. There was a spatter of bullets against the walls at his back, but he stood uninjured and defiantly laughing.

  28. Although the machine gun continued to spatter bullets near them all through the hours they were working, not once again did the men drop when they heard the whisper begin.

  29. But Rachael dismissed her with a little shudder, as from the spatter of icy water against her bared breast.

  30. He did them remarkably well, too, seeing that any minute a shell might come and spatter him all over his own drawing board.

  31. Spatter work" is a means of obtaining a delicate printable tone, consisting of innumerable little dots of ink spattered on the paper.

  32. As in the case of spatter work, superfluous ink must be looked after before making the impression so as to avoid leaving hard edges.

  33. Particular, care must be taken that the brush is not so loaded with ink that it will spatter in blots.

  34. There's high viscosity stuff building a spatter cone to end all spatter cones, and some very thin fluid from somewhere at the bottom.

  35. Therefore, it is well, after the first tones have been etched and printed, to spatter cautiously with chemical ink all those parts that are to be darker than half-tones.

  36. He heard, almost as he saw it, the spatter of a bullet on the rock behind him.

  37. And he might have sprung the lid had not a zipping and a dull, dead spatter on the rock just ahead caught his attention.


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