Verb (used with object), verb (used without object) : The paint splattered when I dropped the bucket. From Dictionary.com.
Rain splattered down on the winding mountain road. From Wordnik.com. [Two young rebels with a runaway plan to meet Elvis] Reference
I think a dolphin splattered with a little bass blood will have the same effect. From Wordnik.com. [Joey From The Dock] Reference
Wallace placed 52nd out of 54 Drivers with Meek's name splattered all over the car. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
But while Louis accepts the meteor, he doesn’t believe in splattered bat blood as an explanation. From Wordnik.com. [Is it raining aliens?] Reference
Hagen found the wreckage "splattered" into the side of a mountain, he said. From Wordnik.com. [phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed] Reference
"It kind of splattered instead of fully forming," Canine said of the shaped charge. From Wordnik.com. [columbiatribune.com stories] Reference
Specific details aren't discussed at great length but the word "splattered" is mentioned so you can use your imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Chicagoist] Reference
All the hope and the lies, splattered this way and that. From Wordnik.com. [Assumption] Reference
A mosque in San Francisco was splattered with pig's blood. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotism Vs. Ethnic Pride: An American Dilemma] Reference
Blood splattered off the entire front line of grunts. From Wordnik.com. [Hell and back...] Reference
The rain splattered water shone like a broken mirror. From Wordnik.com. [Heron Lake] Reference
The ceiling of one guest room is splattered with human blood. From Wordnik.com. [Small Screen Drama Kings] Reference
The fruit hit the cabinet instead and splattered on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Thick With Memory] Reference
A plump, rosy shoulder was revealed, splattered with freckles. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Place on Earth] Reference
As he reeled to a stop he saw blood splattered across his windshield. From Wordnik.com. [Volume] Reference
Her uniform — white shirt, plaid skirt — splattered with blood. From Wordnik.com. [Touching Candy Taylor] Reference
Thark's fur was splattered with blood by the time he reached the Ranger. From Wordnik.com. [A Matter of Honor A Terran Empire novel] Reference
The plastic shell cracked and hot copper and silver splattered out of it. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
But being outside of it, we won't chance getting splattered by any fragments. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
Gumbo and cornbread are splattered all over the place and Lucy is starving again. From Wordnik.com. [Desilu, Three Cameras] Reference
Vomit dripped from the sink and splattered in white blots against his black dress shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Blueberries] Reference
The ducks swam and splattered in the stream, played, dived, and at last got to the shore. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore] Reference
Somewhere he had seen that huge, round, intelligent face splattered with startling features. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
It had been raining for the past four or five hours, big hot raindrops that splattered everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Mississippi Blues] Reference
She's stout with hunched shoulders and wears a denim jumpsuit with spangles splattered all over it. From Wordnik.com. [Small Change] Reference
"With Peter Doyle?" she asked, in a tone that made me feel I had splattered oil on my own good dress. From Wordnik.com. [Puries] Reference
Miller penciled in drawings of Woodstock splattered against the wall and Kitty's gruesome decapitation. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman Twin] Reference
She cried, thinking about her upcoming operation; a tear splattered and ran the colors of an aqua green sky. From Wordnik.com. [Marine Life] Reference
Her head rocked back from the impact and pieces of her skull and brain splattered all over the glass cabinets. From Wordnik.com. [Death Watch] Reference
I imagine my brains and skull and blood splattered on Wal-Mart's window, looking like an obscene Sale sticker. From Wordnik.com. [A Documentary About Sharks] Reference
Some wore white lab coats splattered with red paint, with signs reading, "The government has blood on its hands.". From Wordnik.com. [Gay Rights 2.0] Reference
We delicately scoop out each thick snail careful to avoid being splattered with boiling butter and slide it onto our tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Jamie Schler: A Side Trip to Lyons: Le Marché] Reference
Here they had to cling, backwards, to a spinning giant paint can, full of giant paint, while getting periodically splattered with paint. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: I, Boobiac!] Reference
He also probably left something behind: physical evidence including a seven-foot wooden door splattered with what was likely his own blood. From Wordnik.com. [Crime: A Lot Of Lost Causes] Reference
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