Examples of “scattering” in a Sentence

noun A small, irregularly spread amount of something.

• A scattering of snow covered the ground when we woke up.
• Only a scattering of people showed up at the meeting.
• There was a scattering of applause after his speech.

noun The physical process by which waves or particles are deflected after collisions.

• Scientists study the scattering of light to learn how it behaves in fog.
• The scattering of particles in the experiment showed the researchers how they collided.
• The blue of the sky comes from the scattering of sunlight in the atmosphere.