(v. t.) To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud.
(v. t.) To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.
(v. t.) Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.
(v. i.) To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tarantino’s blood-spattered, race-themed western was in fact his biggest hit, taking $425m worldwide.
(2) Inside, the white pillars in the big empty atrium were spattered with blood, and splintered wood and broken chairs hinted at the violence of the three-hour battle.
(3) In the early spring, Atlantic rollers pound the beach while gulls strut in rain-spattered tidal pools.
(4) I recall his guano-spattered union jack frock coat, designed by Alexander McQueen, on the cover of his 1997 drum'n'bass record Earthling.
(5) An experiment at the same Moscow facility in 1999 descended into chaos when a Russian captain forced a kiss on a female Canadian crew member, and two other Russians got drunk and ended up in a fist fight that left blood spattered over the capsule walls.
(6) In Muslim areas, the flag appeared in leaflets in a blood-spattered montage of Tony Blair and George Bush and troops in Iraq, while underneath it she played to religious homophobia by claiming that Labour was allowing children to be propositioned for homosexual relationships.
(7) However, the team still found blood from the attack spattered on some walls and ceilings and also brought back bullet casings that matched weapons Bales was reported to have carried, and fabric that matched a blanket prosecutors say he wore as a cape.
(8) The receipts are being published not merely too late, but also after being liberally spattered with a black marker pen in a way that covers up all the worst crimes.
(9) A central square was left spattered with blood after baton-wielding police dispersed crowds.
(10) As a shell blasted through the wall, showering occupants with shrapnel and spattering blood on walls and floors, Amna Zantit, 31, scrambled to gather up her three terrified infants in a panicked bid for the relative safety of the schoolyard.
(11) "Given that it's usually around 45-50 minutes long, I always presumed you waxed lyrical for many hours talking about everything from Boney M to punching wildlife, with a spattering of football in between, and producer Ben chopped it all down to 45 mintues of football chat.
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(13) After the press conference, St Louis County police department shared pictures of the officer’s blood-spattered face mask.
(14) Its crew found Baby P already stiff and blue in his blood-spattered cot.
(15) (I find it useful to cover the pot with an inexpensive spatter screen to catch any spattering chilli.)
(16) • A defence witness called to dispute the state’s version of how Steenkamp was killed was labelled “irresponsible” by Nel, who pointed out that Roger Dixon was not trained in ballistics, light, sound or blood spatter evidence .
(17) As to Scarfe's cartoon specifically, it seems to me almost identical to every other blood-spattered pictorial lament for man's inhumanity to man he's knocked out over the past 40 years.
(18) It was early March and snow was still spattered on the leaf mould between the firs and larches.
(19) The prosecutor also said blood spatter evidence indicated that the athlete's statement about the location of a duvet in the bedroom was false.
(20) Pro-government media quickly published graphic pictures of the blood-spattered bodies of the five dead Egyptians – Tarek Saad Abdel Fattah, 52; his son Saad Tarek Saad, 26; his son-in-law Salah Ali Sayed, 40; Mostafa Bakr, 60; and Farouk.
Splatter
Definition:
(v. i. & t.) To spatter; to splash.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gucci showed jeans, too, splattered and distressed; at Prada they were tailored with visible white stitching.
(2) While my pink, freckled body is blank and pictureless, my father's is an ink-splattered historical document.
(3) Decreasing r&d time has the same effect on TCs generated from both noise and tonal stimuli, even when it only measurably increases the acoustic splatter of the latter.
(4) In lurid images of blood-splattered dollars fluttering down over warlords in conflict zones, accompanied by a menacing soundtrack worthy of a horror classic, the film seeks to distill in punchy form the central message of the book: that Hillary and Bill Clinton, since leaving the White House famously “dead broke” in 2001, have amassed a vast fortune of more than $200m by blurring the lines between public office, their philanthropic foundation, lucrative speaker fees and friendships with dubious characters around the world.
(5) Sit the steamer on the surface of your milk, slightly off centre so the milk starts to flow around it in a circular motion, rather than splattering uncontrollably.
(6) 92% of obligate heterozygotes had a mud-splattered appearance of the fundus with hyperpigmented streaks and in 74% this was associated with marked iris translucency.
(7) The cartoon shows a menacing looking Netanyahu wielding a blood-splattered trowel, bricking screaming Palestinians into the wall's structure.
(8) The very steep stimulus slopes required to produce an offset CAP are likely to generate much more acoustic splatter than the more gradual slopes required to produce an onset CAP, and this may be related to the different shapes of the onset and offset simultaneous MTCs.
(9) J Crew and studio chic J Crew pays homage to painters with its splattered trousers.
(10) "I remember kissing his head, his face held between two blocks, completely splattered in dry blood.
(11) The house where his blood and brains were splattered yesterday.
(12) I see a cascade of shit pirouetting from your penthouse office, caking each layer of management, splattering all in between.
(13) Clutching Squire-customised Jackson Pollock-style paint-splattered guitars, they launched into Elephant Stone , an instantly infectious collision of melody and house-influenced rhythms delivered in a psychedelic haze.
(14) Nor has the RAF (with apologies to the Royal Air Force) featured in the Mail Online's sidebar of shame whereas BRF has already become almost as much of a regular feature there as drool-splattered photos of 14-year-old girls looking "grown up for their years".
(15) With an old North Face down jacket, MacPac rucksack and mud-splattered Berghaus boots – the kit that saw him through the mountains of central Afghanistan in midwinter – he looks more uppercrust eco-warrior than county Tory.
(16) The latter, splattered with hammers and sickles, runs close to the shores of the Saronic Gulf.
(17) Freud is pictured in his laceless, paint-splattered boots.
(18) Junior doctors are not looking for a last-minute “concession” splattered across the papers.
(19) Movie monsters have been steadily slinking back to the B-list depths from whence they came, hence the popularity of CGI splatter such as Sharknado , where we can be sure no real animals were harmed, because it’s clear none were used.
(20) The floor is splattered with globules and rivulets of dried paint; you could almost be standing on an enormous Jackson Pollock.