Splashed

Examples

• It was very dark, very wet, very muddy, and so we splashed along. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I shut my eyes and pulled, but the nitric acid splashed all over my face and ran down my back. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She was wearing a curious dress of dark silk splashed and spattered with different colours, a curious motley effect. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The slaughter was terrible; the blood of the conquered ran down the streets, until men splashed in blood as they rode. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Outside the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered against the windows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But it seemed to collect in a moment, as a crowd will, and in five minutes to have splashed all the sons and daughters of Adam. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The drives were ill kept, and the neat carriage splashed and floundered in muddy pools along the road. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I am a slovenly old man, and a good deal of my meat and drink gets splashed about on my clothes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The exposed machinery creaked and groaned, the unguarded paddle-wheels revolved ponderously and splashed a great deal of water, the tiller was badly placed for steering. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They search the cupboard and the drawer of the ink-splashed table. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Then he struck a rock, bounded off, and splashed into the water. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

Editor: Nettie