Example Sentences

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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

Vali’s human shape fell from him, and where Vali had stood was a wolf, foam flecking its muzzle.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman