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Example sentences for: smattering

How can you use “smattering” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The hardscrabble town of Sagres and the area around it are remote, rugged, and desert-like, with only a relative smattering of hotels, restaurants, and other facilities aimed at tourists.
Since readers are already using their imagination when reading a novel, a good writer must simply encourage them to imagine what a character's speech may actually sound like by providing them with a smattering of eye-dialect markers.
But the humiliating thing was that I, relatively bilingual and with a smattering of a few other languages, have been able to make myself understood in most part of western Europe, but was thoroughly checkmated not sixty miles as the crow flies from Manchester.
In the original version, we were content to have a good smattering of examples from the earliest to the most recent, but as long as the examples were genuine attestations, we were satisfied.
The other books contain a smattering of travel sites, but Frommer's is alone in listing Web addresses for every restaurant, hotel, and attraction that has one.