smattering in English

noun
1
a slight superficial knowledge of a language or subject.
Edward had only a smattering of Spanish
noun
verb

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1. He has a smattering of French.

2. I only have a smattering of English.

3. 24 I had acquired a smattering of Greek.

4. David has only a smattering of astronomy.

5. The room was strewn with various possessions smattering of rubbish.

6. I've only got a smattering of experience with computers.

7. He has a smattering of knowledge about physics.

8. People with a smattering of physics may bring up " quantum mechanical vacuum fluctuations "

9. It can take root in a rocky crevice with a smattering of soil.

10. It is dangerous that you have a smattering of superficial knowledge on a subject.

11. The doctor spoke some pidgin Vietnamese, and the nurse a smattering of highschool French.

12. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain smattering in that science.

13. Investors appeared to take heart from a smattering of news from banks and the government.

14. Sunset beach: Megan rests her head on Brian's shoulder a smattering of gardenias providing decoration.

15. 22 Yet there are still a smattering of pop ironists trickling sporadically, lip-first into the fray.

16. 16 There were about twenty of us, all told; mostly McHoans but with a smattering of civilians.

17. Ernest Harmon, the W.W.II armored commander who whipped the Constabulary into shape from a smattering of disbanding and generally undisciplined units.

18. Benjoin 19 is more amber oriented, with its honey sweet quality, and has a bare smattering of the vanilla-like character of true styrax benzoin

19. But along with a smattering of more distant background galaxies, the deep image also reveals a curious box-shaped inner halo extending far above and below this galaxy's dusty plane.

20. It also Without good intelligence, the prevenbusiness, requiring adroit investigators, takes training and significant medical suption of terrorism by discovering its finanpainstaking analysis and a smattering of plies, clothing and communication equipcial underpinnings is but an imperfect scigood luck.

21. This Is Not a Test A smattering of EPs have followed but they seem to have documented the sound of a band becoming more aggressive, vulgar and Animalistic. Which is a good thing, of course.

22. Though we understand if the 911K’s owner would be loath to Besplatter his custom dream with earthly dust, stitched into the 911K’s design is a smattering of rally influence, including a doublet of red air horns peeking out underneath the right bumper

23. ‘Liddy's philosophy is a strange mixture of an Anarchistic hatred of Government in the abstract and a cult-like worship of government when it is in the hands of the right.’ ‘Politically blogs tend to either be liberal left or Anarchistic, with a smattering of libertarians.’

24. Political screed, with a smattering of soccer history, followed by gender Bewailings, a few quotes from soccer stars, some neoMarxist claptrap, a smidge of soccer history, and slathered over by gushy assurances that soccer is such a universal and profound experience that surely the world religions suffer in comparison

25. Comparisons to Suicide, The Gun Club, Nick Cave, the Bluesier side of Tom Waits’ Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, and even Fela Kuti and Public Enemy, are all completely legit, but to try to compartmentalize Algiers into a smattering of subgenres, credited to the influencers who pioneered them, would be doing the band a disservice.