Blotches Sentence Examples

blotches
  • As in .` the case of the apple disease it forms large irregular blackish blotches on the fruit and leaves, the injury being often very severe especially in a cool, damp season.

    9
    3
  • All Shadings to be gradual to avoid blotches or streaks.

    6
    1
  • The Dogwood trees were in full bloom, their aromatic blossoms creating white blotches on the hills.

    6
    3
  • The lips, throat, breast and belly, the inside of the legs and the lower sides of tail are pure white, marked with irregular spots of black, those on the breast being long bars and on the belly and inside of legs large blotches.

    3
    0
  • These blotches can take months to years to disappear.

    3
    0
  • The wings, which are not capable of being folded, are usually transparent, but occasionally pigmented and adorned with coloured spots, blotches or bands; the wing-membrane, though sometimes clothed with minute hairs, seldom bears scales; the wing-veins, which are of great importance in the classification of Diptera, are usually few in number and chiefly longitudinal, there being a marked paucity of cross-veins.

    2
    0
  • It grows from a whitish root-stock which sends up in the spring a few long-stalked, arrow-shaped leaves of a polished green, often marked with dark blotches.

    2
    0
  • The animal is ` brown,' of a shade from orange or tawny to quite blackish; the tail and feet are ordinarily the darkest, the head lightest, often quite whitish; the ears usually have a whitish rim, while on the throat there is usually a large tawny-yellowish or orange-brown patch, from the chin to the fore legs, sometimes entire, sometimes broken into a number of smaller, irregular blotches, sometimes wanting, sometimes prolonged on the whole under surface, when the animal is bicolor like a stoat in summer.

    2
    0
  • The colour of the hair, which is longer than in the Nubian, is black, grey or white, with black blotches.

    2
    0
  • The Oriental poppy (P. orientale) and its several varieties are fine garden plants, having huge bright crimson flowers with black blotches at the base.

    2
    0
    Advertisement
  • The fur has, however, a tawny yellow or reddishgrey ground colour, marked with black spots, aggregated in streaks and blotches, or in elongated rings enclosing areas rather darker than the general ground-colour.

    2
    0
  • To the unaided eye the disease is seen as purplish brown or blackish blotches of various sizes, at first on the tips and edges of the leaves, and ultimately upon the leaf-stalks and the larger stems. On gathering the foliage for examination, especially in humid weather, these dark blotches are seen to be putrid, and when the disease takes a bad form the dying leaves give out a highly offensive odour.

    2
    0
  • The tiny caterpillars strip the flesh out of leaves causing brown blotches which become holes later.

    2
    0
  • This is apparent from the brown blotches which are always adjacent to the center spine of the leaf.

    2
    0
  • In both sexes the belly ranges in color from yellow orange, marked with dark blotches which are finer in the female.

    2
    0
    Advertisement
  • Any showing signs of yellow blotches must be examined for rust.

    2
    0
  • He said that sick soldiers, who had become nauseous, dizzy and developed skin blotches, had all recovered.

    2
    0
  • All other sifakas have a gray or black visage, but the faces of some of these individuals were strangely pink with dark blotches.

    2
    0
  • She flushed, her beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she submitted herself to Mademoiselle Bourienne and Lise.

    2
    0
  • Septicaemic rash Watch out for tiny red or brown pin prick marks which can change into purple blotches or blood blisters.

    2
    0
    Advertisement
  • In the green house is an exquisite species called Pelargonium triste whose tiara of creamy-yellow flowers with purple blotches are spicily fragrant at night.

    2
    0
  • While I expected something more akin to red blotches, I was pleased to see that my skin looked vibrant, fresh and naturally flushed.

    2
    0
  • Small blotches or sections of redness can be effectively concealed with standard products, but for large areas, a cream or lotion formula may work best.

    2
    0
  • Flash and studio lighting are usable, but should be carefully balanced, as newborn skin tones can be pale with ruddy blotches that can be highlighted with this type of light.

    2
    0
  • E. undulata has leaves 18 inches long, wavy at the margins, and profusely marked on the under surface with dark purple blotches which, in the variety striata, assume the form of stripes.

    2
    0
    Advertisement
  • Scorpion Iris (Iris Alata) - A beautiful bulbous kind with fine large blossoms, the ground color delicate lilac-blue, with showy blotches of bright yellow, copiously spotted with a darker hue.

    2
    0
  • Africa, has curiously formed small white flowers, which are disposed in a long slender spike, and the bright orange-scarlet blotches make them interesting when closely examined.

    2
    0
  • It is free in flower when well established, and makes many crowns, with bold foliage of paler green, less mottled above, but covered beneath with reddish blotches.

    2
    0
  • Sometimes, the rash spreads to the arms, legs, and trunk, where it has a lace-like or net-like appearance as the centers of the blotches fade.

    2
    0
  • In the majority of cases it appears to be pied, showing large blotches of black or brown on a white ground; the head being generally white with large black patches on the sides, most of the neck and the fore-part of the body black, and the hind-quarters white with large coloured blotches.

    2
    1
  • The wings in nearly all species have a dappled or speckled appearance, owing to the occurrence of blotches on the front margin and to the arrangement of the scales covering the veins in alternating light and dark patches (Austen).

    2
    3
  • When an attempt is made to represent in colour the actual distribution of the races (as in Dr Chavanne's Geographischer and statistischer Handatlas) the effect is that of occasional blotches of solid colour on a piece of shot silk.

    2
    2
  • Uromyces Erythronii, a rust, sometimes causes considerable injury to the foliage of species of Lilium and other bulbous plants, forming large discoloured blotches on the leaves.

    2
    4