How to Use inkblot in a Sentence

inkblot

noun
Definition of inkblotnext
  • The measure isn’t unlike the pain scale that doctors use to ask how patients feel, or the Rorschach inkblot that psychologists use to prompt subconscious feelings from their clients.
    — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 27 Dec. 2022
  • For example, those are not, in fact, inkblot tests on the new menus.
    — Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 11 June 2020
  • Because movies are inkblots of one kind or another, as are books.
    — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Bored joggers are looking at oil stains on cement like inkblot tests to keep their minds busy.
    — Kevin Armstrong, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
  • For now, there’s little more than inkblots to interpret.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Researchers then took a series of Rorschach inkblots and fed them to both Norman and a standard AI to compare results.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 7 June 2018
  • But melasma—a puzzle of brown patches resembling the inkblots on a Rorschach test—is quite another.
    — Rachel Marlowe, Vogue, 7 Nov. 2018
  • Each time my eyes pause, perfectly round purple inkblots appear.
    — Lisa Wood Shapiro, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • Now another inkblot of feathers rose off the September sheet water, swirled for a moment as if gathering its wits, and streamed straight for the decoys.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Rorschach is no longer a hero but the motif of a white-supremacist terrorist movement whose members wear ghostly white masks adorned with amorphous inkblots.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Critically, the brain remains intact after a primary blast injury, and the only potential sign of trauma is a faint inkblot of blood that may be spread across its surface.
    — Rachel Lance, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The prints were complemented by logos and the occasional colorful graphic—are those inkblots or feathers?
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The low complexity fractal inkblots made this process trigger-happy, fooling observers into seeing images that aren’t there.
    — Richard Taylor, Smithsonian, 31 Mar. 2017
  • In the Rorschach test a participant’s perceptions of inkblots are recorded and are then analyzed for clues about his or her personality characteristics and emotional functioning.
    — NBC News, 25 Jan. 2018

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