scattered

IPA: skˈætɝd

Dispersed, spread apart into disunited units.
Seemingly randomly distributed.
(meteorology, of clouds) Covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.
(meteorology, of precipitation) Affecting 30 percent to 50 percent of a forecast zone.

Examples of "scattered" in Sentences

Once she starts talking, however, her own croissant remains in scattered pieces on her plate.
Hundreds of worshippers checked their bags at a ratty cloak stand and left their shoes in scattered piles.
For areas not under the freeze watch (such as areas inside the beltway and the District), low temperatures will drop into the mid-to-upper 30s resulting in scattered frost.
Then the cutter, along with all her wealth of hoop-iron, tobacco, knives and calico, had gone up into the air and fallen back into the sea in scattered and fragmented nothingness.
Numbering 16,000 people living in scattered locations throughout Sonora, the Yaquis continued to resist the Spanish Empire and the Mexican Republic well into the Twentieth Century.
Although only 250,000 Jewish settlers live in scattered, fortified communities in the West Bank, among more than two million Palestinians, 80 per cent of West Bank water is consumed by Israelis.
And how does one understand the effects of war on the relationship between self and place when people-land relationships have been brutally disrupted, when concern over the effects of being "scattered" is matched by the life-or-death tension of resettlement, when where a person belongs (which, in local constructions of place, also means to or with whom) is one of the most pressing questions of the day?