fleck
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A nanoparticle is a fleck of material ranging in size approximately between 1 and 100 nanometers.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2024
Mercifully just south of the Atlantic's Hurricane Alley, Trinidad appears on the map like a small fleck of land that has been chipped off the coast of Venezuela.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2023
The Scottish musician, who specializes in pop treacle, is foulmouthed the way a young child is — cheekily and cuddly, without a fleck of harm.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2023
When they dialed the pressure back up to as little as 0.3 gigapascals, the blue fleck turned pink as the electrical resistance plunged to zero.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 8, 2023
Like I was just a fleck of invisible dust flying in the air.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
The red and blue of the women’s clothing echo the tints of the rainbow itself, as do smaller, random flecks of color throughout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
The nonstick pan that’s shedding black flecks into your eggs?
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026
In his front yard, Rains kept a shaker table and other equipment to sift soil for flecks of gold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2024
Yet these folkloric flourishes are grounded by earthy, authentic details like the flecks of muck and gore that accumulate on the characters.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2024
Cinder flecks from his feet pecked at my shins.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
During the nearly hourlong call, Regan spoke quickly and confidently, detailing his investment strategy and professional credentials—many of them fabricated—in a soothing voice flecked with humor and references to his faith in God.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Maybe it’s flecked with chives and garlic salt.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
This is not a class-action saga flecked with mangled limbs, unchecked asbestos, or dramatically shortened lifespans.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2024
It threatened to sully her white dress flecked with rainbows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2024
In the midst of it there wound lazily a dark river of brown water, bordered with ancient willows, arched over with willows, blocked with fallen willows, and flecked with thousands of faded willow-leaves.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
In person, Slaiby — his hair cropped high, gray hairs flecking his beard — is all business.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
Basinski began digitising the old tape loops, but bits of the tape’s metal surface starting flecking off.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2019
For starters, the police and all they survey in their bleak precinct are in desperate straits, even down to the paint flecking off the station house’s walls.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2013
Last week, with gold flecking the trees and black flecking the skies, the Terre Haute Crow Patrol mustered once again.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2011
That spring morning she had flown over the sea with her bare feet skimming the water, her boots in her pockets, the ocean spray flecking her ankles, laughing with the speed and joy of it.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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