flyspeck

Example Sentences

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The 17-year-old best friends are neighbors in a flyspeck California town in the Mojave Desert.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

But the press’s team used several printers to speed along reprints, and Krissoff says he’s proud that “a flyspeck university press in West Virginia can publish at the highest level.”

From Slate • May 17, 2021

The level of funding required would be a flyspeck in the military budget, not an endless boondoggle.

From Washington Times • Apr. 9, 2018

“I kept to the Lowcountry,” he writes, “the Black Belt, the Delta, the backwoods, the flyspeck towns.”

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2015

Tom looked up and saw a tiny flyspeck roaring straight down at the ship.

From On the Trail of the Space Pirates by Glanzman, Louis