covered patchily; often used in combination
Used in a Sentence
spattered
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for spattered.
Editorial note
If the runs get wider instead, they'll cross over existing endpoints and end up spattered around before merging.
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Definitions2
Parts of speech1
Quick take
covered patchily; often used in combination
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of spattered gathered in one view.
spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for spattered.
adjective
covered patchily; often used in combination
adjective
spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination
Example sentences
If the runs get wider instead, they'll cross over existing endpoints and end up spattered around before merging.
They both have fairly niche usecases but they’d have to be spattered all over basically all rust code.
The alternative is biased commercial TV which prefers ad-spattered sensation over what the BBC produces.
Worse, one of the world’s most exciting companies will be spattered by the debris along the way.
The next day, he's walking out of your house with a blood-spattered knife, and you never see your dog again.
Within a few generations, it will have spattered copies of the substrate into all its neighbors.
When the entire application is spattered with code like that performance takes a major hit.
You can see video of the impact- it looks like the missile hit the payload, not the balloon, and spattered it.
His blood spattered spectacles even featured on the cover of Yoko Ono's 1981 album ‘Season of Glass’ following his murder in 1980.
And contrary to what is spattered on the boards, C is not an understandable, close-to-the-metal wrapper around assembly instructions (compilers have advanced quite a bit).
Steel toe-caps, a hi-visibility jacket and some emulsion-spattered trousers will allow one to get away with pretty much anything, even in the broadest of broad daylight.
One resembled sponge cake spattered with chocolate sauce.
Quote examples
Czesław Miłosz, "Campo di fiori": In Rome on the Campo dei Fiori baskets of olives and lemons, cobbles spattered with wine and the wreckage of flowers.
They all follow the same patter- "specific thing you want" with a table of contents with loads of repeated chapters and unrelated information, spattered with effectively random images.
I remember my days in a Java environment where policy was "everything needs to be declared final" (so "final" got spattered all over the place) with zero nostalgia.
Lee testified that although Carr had been brutally stabbed numerous times, including a cut to his jugular vein, the blood from his wounds had spattered in an "uninterrupted" fashion, meaning there was nothing between Carr's body and the wall.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use spattered in a sentence?
If the runs get wider instead, they'll cross over existing endpoints and end up spattered around before merging.
What does spattered mean?
covered patchily; often used in combination
What part of speech is spattered?
spattered is commonly used as adjective.