“They stood silhouetted against a scattered sprinkling of distant, pen-head lights visible beyond the hillside, in the wide expanse of farming country in the valley below.”

“A string of fairy lights on the wardrobe was casting pinpoint dots in a scattered pattern that reminded him of the freckles on her cheekbones.”

“We did request a 6-month period of delivery on a scattered basis.”

“For one thing, the speakers are writers, their subject literature, and art is proverbially long, and life short and scattery.”

“The scattering clouds in the sky created a picturesque sunset.”