Example Sentences

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Flecked with a finishing hit of flaky salt, these ring all the crunchy, nutty, chewy, chocolatey bells you could ask for in an after school snack or homey dessert, without turning on an oven.

From Salon • Oct. 9, 2022

Seattle Pops strawberry basil: Flecked with visible bits of basil, this beauty balanced sweetness with herbaceousness, with the basil adding a complexity that edged it past our No. 2 choice.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2016

Flecked with magical realist touches and a sense of the supernatural, the film takes no shortcuts as its characters discharge their laborious and depressing duties.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2011

Flecked intermittently with woodwind bird song, the piece is clearer and lighter than its predecessor but hardly less mysterious.

From New York Times • May 25, 2011

The good black horse came riderless home, Flecked with blood drops as well as foam; See yonder hillock where dead leaves fall; The good black horse dropped dead—that is all.

From From Bull Run to Appomattox by Hopkins, Luther W.