Verb (used without object) : rain spattering on a tin roof.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : the spatter of rain on a roof.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself. ,to spatter the ground with water.    From Dictionary.com. 

Her face was wet and warm with the spattered blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Indian's Hand 1892] Reference

The rifles spattered the lead among the nearest bears.    From Wordnik.com.  [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference

The juice spattered into his face and over those near him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

The bullets spattered in the water and thudded on the beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

A smart shower burst, and great drops spattered over the dory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

Louise sauntered homeward, a drop of water spattered on her cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference

I write the kind of novel that gets spattered with margarita and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chick-Lit Author Takes On Critic Who Passes Herself Off As A Man] Reference

Well, yes -- that would be nudity and spattered blood on a magazine cover.    From Wordnik.com.  ['True Blood' stars get naked for Rolling Stone] Reference

Limewater is useful in counteracting the effect of acids spattered in the eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference

Marilyn Manson saunters over to the grill, picks up a grease-spattered spatula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Soulful Cheese and Melted Needs] Reference

The trunk was a spattered blood-red, including all over my new tan line jacket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoke Signals: Necessity, mother of sauce] Reference

Recently, he was grinding venison in his kitchen when blood spattered on his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Instincts: Where modern man can learn to live like his ancestors] Reference

She smashes her head on the hard floor and blood is seen spattered across the cell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six months for police sergeant who hurled woman into a cell] Reference

He had his front teeth knocked out in a match and sent me a page spattered with blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [When I Lived There.] Reference

Wet, spattered, with mud, and exhausted, Nancy got a footing on firm ground once more.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

A steady drip of condensation spattered the windshield, forcing Orne to use the wipers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing Link] Reference

She chewed on the sides of her tongue and studied her face in the soap-spattered mirror.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuning Pegs] Reference

The milk from the rolling pail spattered over his feet as he sprang to Elizabeth's rescue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

Mud-spattered men came bursting back, wanting to change their now ruined clothing for fresh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference

A horrified deputy found Laney in the woods outside her home wearing blood-spattered pajamas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrea Yates Redux] Reference

Soon a shirtless man in paint-spattered pants emerged and peered at Fedder through the glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

Jim was spattered with scales from head to foot, and drenched with water from the splashing tails.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

Just above, over the crown of the hill, she saw the sky, moonless, blackish, spattered with stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coast of Chance] Reference

Try codeblog. com, where medics share blood-spattered and bittersweet stories of life on the wards.    From Wordnik.com.  [BLOGWATCH] Reference

Beneath the film's Spandex humor and spattered blood pulses something at least a little Shakespearean.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 'Riffs Interview: Artist JOHN ROMITA JR. talks family business, Big Daddies & the 'Kick-Ass' sequel] Reference

 Clay was spattered all over her hands, arms, and all over her blue work shirt with the sleeves rolled up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Dreams of Reality, 10] Reference

The man had gotten to his feet and was dialing a number on an old orange Princess phone spattered with paint.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

At a recent meeting in their paint-spattered embassy, U.S. diplomats huddled to discuss the mood in the streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broken Dreams] Reference

I write the kind of novel that gets spattered with margarita and suncream rather than soaked in Booker-type praise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chick-Lit Author Takes On Critic Who Passes Herself Off As A Man] Reference

Most of the red stuff flows in the ring, but one blood-spattered scene takes place at the supermarket where Ram works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some cleaning advice for The Wrestler’s Randy “The Ram” Robinson] Reference

It's the way trend-surfers were lured into tech stocks in 1999 and 2000, just in time to be spattered when the bubble burst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Today's Lesson: Risk And Greed] Reference

  Though time has taken its toll on his body, his legs remember running full-tilt, through tall greenery under a star spattered sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moonlit Mariposa] Reference

Police broke down the locked door to Kercher's room and found her body in a pool of blood, with blood also spattered high on the walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death in Perugia] Reference