Use "smatter" in a sentence

1. Those who don’t, well… already you are seeing the rise of different branches of religions, a smattering of what we currently call “cults

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2. People must have been living on this site for centuries … she visualised fur clad people with straggly hair wandering around the boggy bits with spears … no, that felt wrong … why would they need spears to collect plants? Baskets, perhaps … did they have baskets then? When exactly would it have been? Her daytime TV watching had given her a hazy smattering of terms – bronze age came before iron age, she knew that … but how much before? And when did they stop being savages and become civilised?

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3. Mainly double barreled shotguns but also a smattering of hunting rifles and 22 rimfire semi-auto rifles

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4. When his lungs were full again and the smattering of 'amen's had died down, the bishop began again

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5. If, in those little schools, the books by which the children are taught to read, were a little more instructive than they commonly are; and if, instead of a little smattering in Latin, which the children of the common people are sometimes taught there, and which can scarce ever be of any use to them, they were instructed in the elementary parts of geometry and mechanics ; the literary education of this rank of people would, perhaps, be as complete as can be

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6. They went to the village, staying a short while, learning a smattering of the strange language, then on to another and then another

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7. They were trees, and some along the levee somewhat closer still had a smattering of fruit that fairly shone in the haze of morning sun

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8. I also found time to pick up a smattering of the Quechua language

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9. Along the way I also found time to teach Cimnashote a smattering of Maya so he could follow along on our tumen meetings

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10. nights you could only see a smattering of stars

11. Their arrival had been noted, and there was a smattering of polite applause, so they bowed to the assembly in acknowledgment

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12. unexpectedly, he spat, smattering pieces of chewed and salivated

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13. There was a smattering of polite applause for George's effort

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14. There was a smattering of: “Hear, hear!” from a few corners of the room

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15. face smeared with smatters of blood, his eyes staring but not

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16. Although there was a smattering of studies suggesting

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17. His orange hair stuck up at awkward angles and the smattering of freckles on his face made Zoe grin

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18. Every window of the schoolhouse was being pelted with black feathers, leaving smatters of red on the glass

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19. My first opponent looked about ten and wobbled ‘Bless this House’ in a breathy treble, then pompous Harry David boomed ‘The Cornish Floral Dance’ before I earned a smattering of applause with what I hoped was a spirited rendition of ‘Westering Home

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20. A smattering of 2011 conversations with some of the

21. The last phrase Terry Pugh had used was the crucial one and it was sheer luck that DC Potter with his smattering of spoken Welsh understood it

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22. “This is the first planet where we have seen more than a smattering of isolated survivors

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23. The posting drew a smattering of responses and within a

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24. Several of the Dons and a smattering of students had

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25. smattering of the usual fare: Annie Wentworth called to tell her 259

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26. inadequate for the scene, ‘ How did you do this? ’ his voice was awe smattered

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27. smattered testosterone in the air

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28. She removed the blood smattered smock and laid it on the counter, then followed Ben, Samsung, and Sam out the door

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29. He speaks a smattering of Coloradeño Spanish

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30. With my smattering of Paiute we manage to eke out a semblance of conversation

31. They will protest and stall and in the end, only a smattering will get through

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32. It wasn’t long until their fire and a smattering of stars provided a stingy illumination

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33. A smattering of brightly wrapped gifts sat

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34. predominated, followed by Germans and a smattering of Russians and other Europeans

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35. With perfectly white even teeth, a smattering of freckles, and deep brown eyes, Hal thought she could be quite pretty sometimes

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36. After a smattering of questions, he was transferred to an “account representative

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37. John's Tavern, casting all that sat at the smattering of rickety tables in tobacco-entwined shadows

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38. This time he made off in a different direction, skirting the smattering of shanties along the foreshore with enough skip in his heel to easily betray his bearing

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39. The blue shoes had a smattering of faux diamonds across the top

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40. Patchy grass and a smattering of dandelions and buttercups grew between the rough markers

41. After a year in Hong Kong I could speak a smattering of the local Cantonese dialect, I knew a northern Chinese restaurant from a Guangdong restaurant, and I had convinced myself that there was no better beer in the world than San Lik, the slang way of pronouncing San Miguel which identified you as a resident which in turn identified you as being off limits when it came to overcharging or harassing

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42. He thought of the blind child at the orphanage, how the boy’s ankles and shins were always a smattering of bruises, and strangely, it gave him comfort to think he had something in common with this particular orphan now—something more than loss

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43. Every time the girl moved her head they sparkled more, a smattering of stars clumped together to adorn a naked ear

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44. There was a smattering of quick movement as swords were pulled from sheaths and bows readied

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45. With the comings and goings of the holiday routine, the boys" boisterousness, Haik"s high spirits and Maria"s efforts, a smattering of conversation surfaced out of the sulking pair and restrained smiles brightened their faces

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46. A girl about my age, Greek of course, for everyone in that hall was Greek even if one would have never deduced it from the patchy smattering of Greek and the few scratchy Greek records, noticed the

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47. Smatterings of pink

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48. They represented a smattering of individuals from all walks and positions of society, but that said, the majority of them were of the poorer classes

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49. to say that a person without a smattering of these things would be a

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50. There was an equally perfunctory clap of applause from a smattering of those in the crowd as Katie smiling big bowed over as if she’d gotten a standing ovation, even as she most likely had just given the drummer and electric guitarist situated behind her and eye full

51. As if on cue with the dawn’s first rays of light the other benches filled with a smattering of people waiting for the metro train

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52. The forest floor was devoid of plant growth save for a smattering of ferns growing here and there

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53. smatterings of ink pen pointillism

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54. and the enthusiastic smatterer’s approach on the other have caused the

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55. "I," said Don Quixote, "have some little smattering of Italian, and I plume myself on singing some of Ariosto's stanzas; but tell me, senor--I do not say this to test your ability, but merely out of curiosity--have you ever met with the word pignatta in your book?"

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56. entertainment, but he did have a smattering of hope that their good predictions

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57. Without having been in the school of the Abbe Faria, the worthy master of The Young Amelia (the name of the Genoese tartan) knew a smattering of all the tongues spoken on the shores of that large lake called the Mediterranean, from the Arabic to the Provencal, and this, while it spared him interpreters, persons always troublesome and frequently indiscreet, gave him great facilities of communication, either with the vessels he met at sea, with the small boats sailing along the coast, or with the people without name, country, or occupation, who are always seen on the quays of seaports, and who live by hidden and mysterious means which we must suppose to be a direct gift of providence, as they have no visible means of support

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58. Lydia ran her fingers through the light smattering of dust on the table behind the couch

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59. A few times throughout the day, I saw Bald Mountain and Grizzly Peak to the northwest—dark green and brown mountains covered with smatterings of scraggly windblown trees and bushes—but mostly I walked in a bushy forest, crossing an increasing number of primitive roads cut with the deep treads of tractors

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60. Ubi patria, as we learned a smattering of in our classical days in Alma Mater, vita bene

61. In front of him there was an empty coffee can with a smattering of coins

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62. I let Portland roll around in my mind through the days, as I passed out of the Sky Lakes Wilderness into the Oregon Desert—a high dusty flat plain of lodgepole pines that my guidebook explained had been smattered with lakes and streams before they were buried beneath the tons of pumice and ash that had fallen on them when Mount Mazama erupted

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63. The landscape outside the north windows of the lodge was not the glistening white peak one sees from miles away, but a grayish and slightly barren slope dotted with a few scraggly stands of pines and a smattering of lupine and asters that grew among the rocks

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64. There was a smattering of laughter and I asked again, “Any questions?”

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65. I looked at the solidity of him, at the smattering of scars

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66. General Kahlyns had indeed almost completed the training of the new regiments, and many of those new soldiers were Zebediahan and Tarotisian, with more than a smattering of unnatural Charisians who preferred dry land to the open sea thrown in for good measure

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67. Instinctively, I reach out to run my fingers through the smattering of dark hair on his chest to see how it feels

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68. I want to run my nose and tongue through that smattering of chest hair

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69. So it was that we played to a bunch of curiosity seekers, a smattering of journalists, a public bar full of record company freeloaders, plus Courtney and Kerry, the daughters of Robert F

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70. I was paid $8,000, and a smattering of survivors’ groups invited me to speak

71. There was a smattering of laughter

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72. I passed a bar, looking through the window at the smattering of “patrons,” to put it politely, who were still drinking at three in the morning

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73. A smattering of cheers went up from the white audience

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74. There was a smattering of applause

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75. This provides a smattering of recent popular albums and songs of different types

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76. On the surface he was mild and meek; he had the merest smattering of education, he was practically never heard to talk of anything

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77. ” He depicted him as a man of weak intellect, with a smattering of education, who had been thrown off his balance by philosophical ideas above his level and certain modern theories of duty, which he learnt in practice from the reckless life of his master, who was also perhaps his father—Fyodor Pavlovitch; and, theoretically, from various strange philosophical conversations with his master's elder son, Ivan Fyodorovitch, who readily indulged in this diversion, probably feeling dull or wishing to amuse himself at the valet's expense

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