The leading actor was caught in a spatter of applause as he moved among the admiring drinkers.

NEWYORKER: A Beneficiary

Murdoch is lucky that a prankster got close enough to spatter him with shaving cream from a failed pie-in-the-face attempt.

FORBES: Murdoch Survives Hearing, But His Aura Takes a Hit

Lit--up shop fronts swam in a blur of the rain that had begun to spatter in angry fistfuls across the windscreen.

NEWYORKER: The Swan

Farms are bigger there, and more enticing than the postage-stamp smallholdings that spatter Poland's poor eastern parts that were once part of Russia.

ECONOMIST: Polish land

They bought CB radio sets in droves, learned a spatter of the lingo and imitated The Dukes of Hazard from Friday-night TV, while their kids learned it from the CB Bears cartoon on Saturday morning.

FORBES: The Push-To-Talk Push