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

In his day French was the international language, spoken by anyone who aspired to a place in high society in any country, but during his brief visit to London in 1763-64 he made an attempt to pick up a smattering of English.
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.
Then there is a smattering of other things--shopping, food, housekeeping, cartoons, religion, and so on.
Today’s Jamaican population is a mixture of African and English, with Spanish, Indian, and a smattering of Portuguese Jews, Germans, Welsh, and Scots.
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.