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Meanings of splatter in English
Catalan
polvorització catòdica Spanish
salpicadura The noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively.
Synonyms
Examples for "sputtering"
Examples for "sputtering"
1
The city has more serious concerns than its football team's sputtering form.
2
It's about the still-sputtering economy, of course, and the fear it engenders.
3
The company grew through the sputtering economy of the next two years.
4
All along the line of the rail I heard the fuses sputtering.
5
It had been crackling, sputtering nasal tinny words while the men talked.
1
And shape is one of the things we consider in spatter-pattern analysis.
2
Neill leaped back in a spatter of bullets that rained round him.
3
Three loud reports and then the touf-touf, spatter-dash-spatter-dash of a motor bicycle.
4
Several showed blood spatter, including above the bed in the main bedroom.
5
Blaine anticipated them with a spatter of bullets from their own weapon.
1
Investors put aside any concerns that the high-flying company would soon sputter.
2
He switched on the electric current, and the apparatus began to sputter.
3
The helicopter man pulled the ignition-cord and a rocket began to sputter.
4
He slammed the door viciously going out, causing the lamp to sputter.
5
The eruption of Vesuvius was only a little sputter to what followed.
1
He couldn't recognize any of them through the spattering rain and mist.
2
Lloyd said to Orren, with blood spattering from out of his mouth.
3
Blood spurted up through the mud, which flew spattering in all directions.
4
A shower had begun and drops were spattering on Johann's upturned face.
5
When he hit the floor his face broke, pieces spattering Dowd's shoe.
1
The rain began to come down in hard drops, splattering the Thames.
2
The bowl almost bounded from her hands, splattering chocolate on her skirts.
3
The wheels of the Rolls skidded in the mud, thoroughly splattering Celia.
4
It hit the ground next to them, splattering turf and small pebbles.
5
Guns roared all around me, splattering the nearest ghouls into black-blooded slurry.
1
Several minutes elapsed, and the candle began to splutter in its socket.
2
But the women riders have La Course, I hear you splutter indignantly.
3
The candle decided to splutter once more, and give up the struggle.
4
Jukes understood the boatswain to splutter that the bridge ladders were gone.
5
Alas, this would be a rare tournament at which Germany would splutter.
Usage of splatter in English
1
Risk having him splatter her heart all over the ground once more?
2
Gullberg saw a red flower-shaped splatter on the wall behind the bed.
3
The wheels of the American jeep turn and splatter us with mud.
4
He wondered what it would feel-like to splatter all over the floor.
5
As if that bloodstain splatter I had been dreading was already here.
6
Tomorrow, and I don't care if you splatter yourself on the rocks.
7
Instead, splatter the rest of your favorite holds in the empty spaces.
8
Not a splatter of mud or a speck of dust on it.
9
Beneath the blood splatter were twenty different black and white ten-inch screens.
10
She felt it splatter beneath her sturdy New Balance walking shoe.
11
I repeated this step with each color, producing a splatter effect.
12
He stood up, watching great drops splatter off the box top and cement.
13
Shauwn Diva: The splatter look was inspired by my friend's shirt.
14
The glass panes splatter on the rooftop outside like falling crystal.
15
My thoughts began to spiral into sheer panic with each splatter.
16
What were you planning to do, splatter me across the Expanse with it?
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common