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Example sentences for: smattering

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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.
The code of schoolboy honour remained steadfast, as did the erudite smattering of French and Latin phrases and quotations from the Bible and Shakespeare that made Frank Richard's school tales educational as well as entertaining.
Rather, it is remote, rugged and desert-like, with only a relative smattering (compared to the rest of the Algarve) of hotels, restaurants, and other facilities aimed at tourists.
A smattering of reviewers griped about Jar Jar Binks, and the Village Voice was offended by the "blatant ethnic stereotype" behind Watto, "the hook-nosed merchant insect."
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.