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
More procedural requirements mean more chances for a judge to flyspeck some aspect of rulemaking.
From Slate • Jan. 10, 2023
“Look, I’m not going to flyspeck this,” the president added.
From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2021
The level of funding required would be a flyspeck in the military budget, not an endless boondoggle.
From Washington Times • Apr. 9, 2018
We went out, an' the' was somethin' a-floatin' away up yonder, lookin' like a flyspeck on a new tablecloth.
From Happy Hawkins by Wason, Robert Alexander
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.