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

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

From Washington Times • Apr. 9, 2018

He avoids big cities and opts instead to meander through “the Black Belt, the Delta, the backwoods, the flyspeck towns.”

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2017

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