The bird was a dark blotch against the sky.
Source: tatoeba (10651178)
Blotch
//blɒtʃ//
Synonyms for "blotch" (173 found)
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Translations
18 translations across 7 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- обезцветяване на кожата noun (An uneven patch of color or discoloration)
- петно noun (An uneven patch of color or discoloration)
Czech
4 entries- flek noun (An uneven patch of color or discoloration)
- flíček noun (An uneven patch of color or discoloration)
- kaňka noun (An uneven patch of color or discoloration)
- skvrna noun (An uneven patch of color or discoloration)
Italian
4 entries- chiazzatura noun (An uneven patch of color or discoloration)
- macola noun (An uneven patch of color or discoloration)
- macula noun (An uneven patch of color or discoloration)
- picchiettatura noun (An uneven patch of color or discoloration)
Portuguese
1 entries- mancha noun (An uneven patch of color or discoloration)
Russian
1 entries- пятно́ noun (An uneven patch of color or discoloration)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- mrlja noun (An uneven patch of color or discoloration)
- pjega noun (An uneven patch of color or discoloration)
Spanish
1 entries- mancha noun (An uneven patch of color or discoloration)
Sample sentences
32 total sentences available.
There's a blotch of ink in the table cloth.
Source: tatoeba (11535936)
The bird was a dark blotch against the perfect blue sky for several seconds, and then, suddenly folding his pinions and closing his tail, he darted downward like a bomb dropped from an aeroplane.
Source: tatoeba (11618028)
1711, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, London: J. & R. Tonson, 12th edition, Volume I, No. 16, p. 68, […] in healing those Blotches and Tumours which break out in the body […]
Source: wiktionary
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