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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:

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.
Then there is a smattering of other things--shopping, food, housekeeping, cartoons, religion, and so on.
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.
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.
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.