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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:
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.
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.
Not surprisingly, some of my students came along primarily to acquire a smattering of spoken English to help them chat up holidaying women.
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.