flock dot

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a pattern of dots or figures that are not woven but attached to cloth with adhesive.

QUIZZES

In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

Shrubs and small trees dot a parched landscape along the road from Turbat to the border.
The Dangerous Drug-Funded Secret War Between Iran and Pakistan|Umar Farooq|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Behind him stood a flock of fifth-grade boys—and two second-grade girls—all of them wearing the exact same yellow hat.
Even Grade School Kids Are Protesting the Garner Killing Now|Caitlin Dickson|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Fans of the series will flock to see ‘Mockingjay’ this Thanksgiving weekend.
Team Peeta or Team Gale: Why the ‘Hunger Games’ Love Triangle Ruins ‘Mockingjay – Part 1’|Kevin Fallon|November 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Above the notes of praise is a small photo of Guerin wearing a polka dot tie and pocket square, staring at you like a sociopath.
The Multimillion ‘Clairvoyance by Mail’ Scam|Jacob Siegel|November 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST

It was there, in small type, hosted on some dot-edu domain, looking the way websites did in the mid-1990s.
War Is Hell and Such Good Fun|Don Gomez|November 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Though Caroline only brought with her a dot of forty thousand francs, she stood for what was better still, immense possibilities.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
A flock of weary sheep pattered along the road, barnward bound, heavy eyed and bleating softly.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
Once he suddenly found himself in the road driving a small flock of goats, whose he knew not, nor whence he got them.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
A dot or two, sometimes only one, sometimes as many as five, are thrown in as a rough way of indicating the features.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Typical "segmenters" present a ring of rounded segments or spores, each with a small, dot-like chromatin mass.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd