How do you use Spotty in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like patched or spotted, plus the exact meaning.
Spotty in a sentence
Spotty meaning
- Having spots; spotted.
- Occurring in non-contiguous positions or locations.
- Of inconsistent quality.
Using Spotty
- The main meaning on this page is: Having spots; spotted. | Occurring in non-contiguous positions or locations. | Of inconsistent quality.
- Useful related words include: patched, spotted, black-and-white, patterned.
- In the example corpus, spotty often appears in combinations such as: spotty showers, is spotty, and spotty.
Context around Spotty
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 6 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Spotty
- In this selection, "spotty" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, itchy, too, pretty, powder, showers and first stand out and add context to how "spotty" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after a spotty first set and an itchy spotty rash which. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "spotty" sits close to words such as adaptability, alam and arable, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with spotty
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Giants' offense line is spotty at best. (8 words)
He’s a dink and dunker with a spotty long passing. (11 words)
Spotty showers are on tap for the first part of the day. (12 words)
The 6-foot-2, 205-poundrer’s shooting is spotty at best – just 21.6 percent from behind the arc – but he’s a slasher who can attack to the basket, which could help in shot creation when Dinwiddie is off the floor. (43 words)
As many of us know – either from having chickenpox as a child, or watching your own children struggle with it – the key symptom of the virus is an itchy, spotty rash which can appear anywhere on the body. (38 words)
As a young soldier, he had loved to watch “Jeopardy!” and shout out the answers before the contestants did, but as time went on his memory became so spotty that he often had trouble finding his keys. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
After learning the purpose of Spotty Powder, the humourless, smug Miranda Piker and her equally humourless father (a schoolmaster) are enraged and disappear into the Spotty Powder room to sabotage the machine.
Spotty Spotty is a short boy who wears a blue collared jersey and an extremely long, striped tie.
After a spotty first set that featured a combined five service breaks, including Gauff’s double fault on one game point, Gauff gained command over her Czech Republic opponent with a break in the eighth game.
As a young soldier, he had loved to watch “Jeopardy!” and shout out the answers before the contestants did, but as time went on his memory became so spotty that he often had trouble finding his keys.
As many of us know – either from having chickenpox as a child, or watching your own children struggle with it – the key symptom of the virus is an itchy, spotty rash which can appear anywhere on the body.
At the end of this season, Marquez could have entered the free-agent market and found a new home at a ballpark other than Coors Field, where he’s 30-24 with a spotty 5.07 ERA.
Cell phone service was too spotty for her to hear her mom and sister’s voice.
For most, we are just looking at spotty to scattered rain showers overnight, with high temperatures around 40 degrees.
He’s a dink and dunker with a spotty long passing.
I’d felt a bit flat and spotty for a couple of years, but it was livable.
Knowles said that her family wasn’t able to get Johnny the proper care in time to save his life — and care was pretty spotty in the early ’90s regardless.
Perhaps the spotty growth guidance did not meet investors' expectations despite management's overall optimism about the strength of the business.
She said it was Spotty’s and his siblings’ act of showing their affection.
So the potential is there to get your beach day or barbecue in. Especially given how spotty the rain is expected to be.
Spotty rain was around the Triangle and could still pop up as we head into Monday.
Spotty showers are on tap for the first part of the day.
The 6-foot-2, 205-poundrer’s shooting is spotty at best – just 21.6 percent from behind the arc – but he’s a slasher who can attack to the basket, which could help in shot creation when Dinwiddie is off the floor.
The Giants' offense line is spotty at best.
The system brought initial spotty showers in the morning before the main front arrived in the area.
While it sounds good on paper, you may find that the connection tends to get spotty.
Common combinations with spotty
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- spotty showers 16×
- is spotty 9×
- and spotty 8×
- few spotty 8×
- of spotty 7×
- was spotty 5×
- spotty at 5×
- the spotty 4×
- spotty in 4×
- spotty and 4×