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Sentence Examples People wiped it to remove a speck of dirt here and there before covering it back with the cloth. He might have missed it, for, even beneath the powerful eye of the scope, steadily beating in slow cadence, it was no larger than a speck. But being seen in the shimmering waters, when you're but a speck of flotsam to a passing ship, was never a sure bet. Soon, a peek of light appeared on the flat horizon, a tiny speck no larger than the glare of a flashlight a mile away. They eased the ponies forwards, and soon the village was a tiny speck in the distance. The prophetess smoothed the front of her skirt, absent-mindedly removing a tiny speck of dust. It's a blustery day on Humble Island, a tiny speck of rock tucked into a bight on the south end of Anvers Island, Antarctica. She ensures that not a speck of dust is found, not a bed is left unmade and not a flower remains unarranged. Once, he pressured someone into scrubbing his boots clean and moaned when he noticed one speck of mud on the bottom. The captain watched as the planet appeared first as a tiny speck, then as a steadily growing disk on the view-glass. Among the characters is the driver who bequeathed to his family the stubborn speck of coal dust in his eye. As Jocelyn impressed her opponents with fury, a subtle speck of light the size of a pinhead formed in the center of the room. If man is just a speck in the universe, like a bacteria, what does he matter in the scheme of things? Even driven snow has at each flake's heart a speck of soot around which the crystal coalesces. Add the radicchio, thyme, speck, prosciutto, and chicken stock and cook for another eight to ten minutes. The path was empty, save for a faint sobbing sound and a tiny speck of a figure in the distance. I'm on a camel, and there's a desert, and a tiny speck in the distance coming closer and closer. It took every speck of willpower and strength she had to force them back to an even position. Unit by unit, province by province, border by border, dust speck by dust speck, I dissected that position to a fare-thee-well. And it's the only speck of land in an area of the ocean about the size of the continental United States. Show More Sentences So we can use things like crosses, holy water, bibles, rosaries, and even something as small as a speck of holy ashes. And there was all that talk of war, war against an invisible enemy, an unseen speck on a parched landscape. If you take out all the over-travel, all it takes is a speck of dirt or unburned powder in the wrong place and the gun won't fire. The problem with the walk across the beach is that it is a stone beach, not a speck of sand in sight, and I am wearing stiletto-heeled mules. Everything, including the weans, is being scrubbed mercilessly so that not a speck of dust or grime will survive into the New Year. By now your paddling mates are a speck in the distance, the rhythmic flash of the sun on their paddle blades a galling reminder of the way this sport should be played. Every speck of glitter is a tiny mirror reflecting the observer. For the twentieth time since I alighted from the train, I berated myself for not bringing an umbrella with me, flinching as a speck of water flew into my eye. It's evening in Kargi Koyu, a speck of a village on the Aegean coast. I was immortal then, a tiny speck in the grand scheme of things, someone who was to make a mark on the world and seemed to just let that mark slide away into obscurity. There was complete and utter silence as Maggie looked around and the train puffed slowly away, gaining speed until it was a speck at the end of the valley. It was a brilliant speck of chilli in a sea of wallpaper paste. He acknowledges the cheers of his back benches, flicks an invisible speck from his irreproachable Paul Smith sleeve and saunters off back to Downing Street. Sandwiches are a specialty, especially the porchetta with fennel and the meaty forza Italia, put together with speck, prosciutto, cheese and arugula. To walk across fields and meadows in early summer and no longer see a speck in the sky and hear a sweet trill like song and crescendo of melodic notes from the skylark. The speck was sliced into the thinnest of shavings ever to be seen. A tiny speck in the Sulu Sea offers a little known island paradise. A tiny speck of blood landed on his newly polished red-leather shoes. The bear, weak from hibernation, was focused on procuring an easier meal, such as scavenged bison carcasses and the tiny white blossoms that speck the forest edges. Lay the slices of speck over the melon and serve immediately. Show More Sentences If they encounter a speck of nutriment they fan out to quest for more. I'm an unregenerable speck of cancer that needs to be excised from humanity before I grow into something darker. The piccante offering was packed with tomato, mozzarella, roquito peppers, speck ham and grana padano. They are used for adding flavor to soups and salads and for speck dumplings and various noodle and potato dishes. The pasta dish bathed heavenly housemade, extra-wide fettucine noodles in a divine sauce compounded of porcini mushrooms, speck and cream. So, you reich-wing HypoChristians might want to remove the beam from your own eye before attempting to remove the speck from your neighbor's eye. There should not be a single knot or speck in the playing or nonplaying area of the bat. The researchers identified a speck of the mineral staurolite in a South African diamond. If Rent-a-Clunker's very first car actually was a clunker, why wasn't I a speck on the horizon in a shiny sedan from Kurt's Rent-a-Car? At the top left of the picture is an orange speck that scientists strongly suspect is a giant planet. The buttery speck from La Quercia is aged up to 10 months, about twice as long as most speck, and then cold-smoked with applewood. Bones put the tiny crimson speck between his slides, blobbed a drop of oil on top, and focused the microscope. Every micro flow cell manufactured by FFS is inspected in a Class 5 clean room, ensuring not one speck of dust is found on the optically polished windows and flow channel. Traditionally, New England is a soggier gardening atmosphere than the Midwest, where rain gardens are a bonanza for parched land that needs every speck of water. Please, cat owners, be aware that the tinniest nibble of a leaf or a speck of lily pollen on their fur, which they then will lick and ingest, can cause their death. Speck disagreed with my assessment of the dream and my theory that dreams are easily analyzed and interpreted. Speck is smoke and herb cured and more closely resembles Prosciutto Crudo than regular pancetta. Speck reports moosehair embroidery as a decorative art form from the Northern Athapaskans in the Canadian Subarctic to the Iroquoian and Wabanaki groups in the Northeast. Speck says that Walpole's uninterrupted run of 20 years as Prime Minister. Examples from Classical Literature It lifted slowly, and rose, and rose, and dwindled to a speck high in the air. Enamel, varnish, or charr all woodwork thoroughly, leaving no speck of wood bare and no crack open. The Atlantis was spiralling up to her ten-thousand-foot level, and in a moment or two she was nothing more than a speck. Lillias pointed to the bird, diminished almost to a speck, but relieved by the red light against a minute cloudlet. What was the speck in his neighbor's vision to the obscuring beam in his own eye? We could just detect a Zeppelin or a diplodocus as a moving speck against the surface. There was not a speck of dirt or dust or muss or mess on the inside nor the outside of their ears. Trask soon followed, observing that shope was in the fore crosstrees studying the distant speck with a glass. Twenty-three and one-half cubic centimeters of amber fluid flowed into the syringe before a speck of blood appeared. Mrs. Gueste looked through her lorgnon at the glinting speck traveling out on the water. I feel as a cat who would lick all day to take the least speck from her fur. There followed a startling pop, and a white speck flashed through the air toward the coati. She cast a hasty glance at his feet, and saw that there was not a speck of dust on his boots. Yet at this and every Christmastide it is well to give each one credit, if it can be done, for whatever speck of good he may have possessed. She would pick every shred, ravelling, or speck from one's clothing. Dominic pointed at the sea, where the guardacosta was a mere dark speck. But there was not a speck of dust anywhere, as Mrs. Brady noticed. And then she would still keep the house clean, not even a speck of dust. They could see an automobile, like a speck, moving swiftly along it. Here he looks to find a tiny particle of the demolished larva, ofttimes not more than a speck of moisture. Show More Sentences He stared at him as if he were but a speck in the universe he visioned. He stopped again to blow a speck of dust off the musical box. Of origination there is no speck in his reflections or spark in his style. Not even a tiny, wheeling speck betrayed the presence of a bird. A golden speck, no larger than a pin-point, appeared on the rim, and by his manipulation of the riveter it returned to the bottom of tile pan. That will be a long time in which to be isolated upon a savage little speck of land off the larger but no less savage Borneo. Not a speck escaped Aunt March's eye, and all the furniture had claw legs and much carving, which was never dusted to suit. En you speck I could see him turned out po' and ornery on de worl' en never care noth'n' 'bout it? This weak point might be a mere speck on the glass, no larger than a pea, under which the spring lay hidden. He dug deep, and he dug shallow, filling and washing a dozen pans, and was unrewarded even by the tiniest golden speck. Of course every living speck, amoeba or newt, has its own individual soul. He found a small, bobbing speck beyond a far-away hillcrest. Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. I well remember though, how the distant idea of the holidays, after seeming for an immense time to be a stationary speck, began to come towards us, and to grow and grow. Better far that your bones should bleach in this wilderness than that you should prove to be that little speck of decay which in time corrupts the whole fruit. If a speck of oil, if even the natural grease of the human finger touch the hooded terminals, Fleury's Ray will wink and disappear and must be laboriously built up again. Have you seen that awful den of hellish infamy, with the very moonlight alive with grisly shapes, and ever speck of dust that whirls in the wind a devouring monster in embryo? Dim speck as it was in the wide prospect, it made the sunrise a more cheerful sight, and gave to it that sort of human interest which it seems to want at sea. I sought the orchard, driven to its shelter by the wind, which all day had blown strong and full from the south, without, however, bringing a speck of rain. He had been standing on the moor listening to a skylark and watching him swing higher and higher into the sky until he was only a speck in the heights of blue. Show More Sentences I saw you like a speck on a white track, lessening every moment. Jemma and Speck find food and pleasant habitat together, and they winter in a nice, mucky creek bed. Speck inveighs against traffic engineers who want to remove street trees for fear cars will crash into them. But Speck von Sternberg would have balanced Hill, if he had lived. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of speck? Words that rhyme with speck What is the past tense of speck? What is the plural of speck? What is the adjective for speck? What is the noun for speck? Translations for speck Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words speciousness speciously specious speciose specimens specimen specked speckle speckled speckles speckless speckling 5-letter Words Starting With s sp spe spec