motes
- plural of mote.
Example Sentences
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How do you get from microscopic motes to entire worlds thousands of kilometers across?
From Scientific American • Dec. 8, 2020
“What he came to believe, I think deeply and honestly, was that human beings were insignificant little dust motes in this enormous universe and that eventually we would discover that we were not particularly significant.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2020
But the superconducting sensors could measure only the average field across the zircons, which are as small as motes of dust.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 22, 2020
Adora is one of many reasons tension hangs over everything in Camille’s small town like an August humidity, but “Sharp Objects” refuses to spice the narrative’s tragedy with wit or motes of humor.
From Salon • Jul. 7, 2018
In the daytime, a ray of sunlight shone into the tomb, making all the dust motes she stirred up swirl like falling snow.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
