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
The Battle of Waterloo is a flyspeck in importance contrasted with the problem of future existence; but the man who never heard of Napoleon would make a dull companion in this world or the next.
From The "Goldfish" by Arthur Cheney Train
