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splattered

verb

past tense of splatter

as in splashed

to wet or soil by striking with something liquid or mushy the house painters accidentally splattered my car with paint

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Recent Examples of splattered Throughout the years, Graham was sprayed by grout on a construction site and splattered with oil while cutting timber. — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026 The ballad requires more singing and less shouting — and featured a tattooed Lee playing a white upright piano splattered and streaked with fake blood. — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 23 Aug. 2026 The vibe is enveloping, the songs an easily digestible pastiche of pop splattered with hip-hop and the dancing pinpoint-perfect but loose when the Magnificent Seven are unleashed to showcase their personalities. — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026 These unconventional camo pieces styled with everything from cutoff khaki pants decorated with fruit and vegetable prints and paint splattered tops and pleated olive shorts and metallic silver heels. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 10 Aug. 2026 The bathroom had blood splattered on the wall, so hospital staff asked a janitor to clean it. — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026 An unusually silent home, a room splattered with blood and an open window missing its screen. — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 29 July 2026 For nearly 50 years, illustrator and comic book creator Bill Sienkiewicz has burned, splattered and slashed his way across the page with his expressionist approach to visual storytelling. — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026 Overnight, a nurse aide walked into their room and saw blood splattered on the floor, walls, and ceiling, according to a grand jury transcript. — Jordan Rau, NPR, 19 July 2026

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Some rolled and splashed in the shallows, regulating their body temperature after lying in the Arctic sun, others lay motionless, deep in sleep.

— Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Its blood had drawn crooked and contorted lines on the ground, as if a painter had splashed colorful strokes on a canvas to create a postmodern masterpiece.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026

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Instead, Dulai had been clearly beaten and blood was spattered around the room.

— Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026
Crime scene technicians called in to help execute a search warrant reported observing blood spattered all over Mao’s bedroom, and a machete and two dumbbells stained with blood.

— Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 17 June 2026

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