speck
Example Sentences
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I wash the green specks off my hands and head for the front door.
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They screamed like the roll of thunder up and away into the sky until they were nothing but a speck among the clouds.
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A great big apple tree grows from a tiny brown speck of a seed.
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There was not a speck of cloud in the blue sky.
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A black expanse lay on one side of the road, fringed by distant specks of light—the lake, again.
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