At the meeting, he kept smattering on the subject, revealing only a superficial grasp.

She only had a smattering of French, but it helped her order coffee during the trip.

There were smatterings of paint on the floor after the art class.

By the end of the festival, there was only a smatter of visitors lingering in the square.

During meetings he tends to smatter, offering quick opinions that never explore the issue.

The carpenter dismissed the apprentice as a smatterer when he merely touched the varnish and claimed expertise.

He smatters in Spanish and often mistakes everyday words.

After a year abroad, Maya smattered in French, able to order food and ask simple questions but not converse fluently.

The conference organizers were disappointed to find that many smatterers dominated the Q&A, offering shallow comments instead of substantive questions.

Because he had studied smatteringly, he could only answer a few basic questions during the interview.