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Sentence Examples The print from which the transfer was struck is riddled with pocks and specks. There were thousands and thousands of tiny specks moving all over the horizon. Turning the glass snow-globe over and over in his hands, Ross Granger watches tiny white specks swirling around in the water. I saw our little hill on which the palace is situated, and then Rowen showed me tiny specks in the distance. With specks of gravy on his tie and the heavy smell of garlic, his dinner is a dead giveaway. Indeed air travellers will perceive the islands as tiny specks in endless expanses of blue nothingness. He brushed some almost undetectable specks off his apron as a sudden flood of customers entered the store. Riders were arriving with red dirt caked on thick to their faces, with specks of dirt attaching themselves to each singular pore and whisker. Anyone might make a lucky cast and hook a quality speckled trout almost by accident, but super-sized specks rarely are duped. Her face was splattered with specks of mud and dirt, and beads of sweat were forming on her hairline. It was hard to tell the difference between the specks of mud and splodges of coffee cake on my map. She got up slowly, dusting the specks of dirt off her pants, and walked towards the door. The flecks of brown in his shimmering green eyes shined like specks of gold. They were black specks in the distance, nothing more than what looked to be dots of blotched ink dabbed on to the bright, clear blue sky. Aircraft do really travel through the skies, even if they are only seen as tiny specks from the ground. Hens herd their chicks from the shade of one log to the next, searching for specks of grain along the way. They are tiny specks admittedly but of such a vivid blue you can spot them a mile off. Detail was muddled, and there were occasional specks and flecks in the print. These tiny little brown specks will fly as high as eight feet into the air, and once they stick to your house or windows, they stick like glue. The purple flames subsided, and Suka reseated herself, wiping invisible specks of dust from her apron. Show More Sentences Floaters often look like cobwebs, worms, rings, dots, or specks, which are actually condensations in the vitreous humor of the eye. A pixel is one of those many tiny colored specks that make up a digital image. The people below them turned into tiny specks as they took off high into the air. A few spots and specks pop up now and again, but this is acceptable considering the age of the film. Younger crabeater seals have small specks and webs of brown or dark gray over much of their dorsal side. The crowd stood up so they could see the specks, combined into one, quickly slicing through the sky. The tonsils and the back of the throat may look red, swollen, and dotted with whitish or yellowish specks of pus. People were specks far below, crawling about their meaningless, methodical lives like insects. At dusk bunches of these tireless birds rise so high that they become mere crescentic specks in the darkening sky. The moon was just beyond his visitor, its glow tinting the blazing red hair with silver specks of light. He had a grizzled beard with small specks of white running through the black. Most cultivated bananas are seedless, but the memories of seeds remain as brown specks within the flesh. Rising gradually to her feet, those sickish green eyes met the Captain's level, immediately locking on to those specks of electric blue. White pepper is usually used when dark specks would spoil the look of the dish, for example, in any white soups, in blanquette de veau etc. Some shades have yellow or brown specks in them, others have an undertone of blue or purple or even black. The platform was actually some kind of map to the stars above with thousands of tiny specks of light dotting the dark blue steel. The chain was silver and the pendant was made of ruby and specks of tanzanite were embedded in the crystal's casing. Blood may be seen running down the crucifix, while tiny specks of vermilion represent drops of blood on Christ's foot and loincloth. But the sky was dark, the tiny specks in the sky sparkling dimly in the pitch blackness. In the space between stripes, the western garter is marked with dark spots or light specks. Show More Sentences One of these occurs at Baggot's Rock, where specks of corundum are found. There were a few specks on the film print but they were hard to notice. Late afternoon found the two making their way slowly across the sun-baked earth, moving across shadeless, parching desert, two specks in a vast waste of waterless ground. Silver nanoparticles, in particular, interfere with bacterial replication and the tiniest specks physically abrade and disrupt membrane walls. This process is already well under way: the gulf is full of bacteria that happily chomp oil, if they get it in tiny specks. We open on a snowcapped mountaintop, our heroes but specks against the majesty of mother nature. With their pails of paint, the monkeys paint the birds yellow, red, teal, blue, black and more and add stripes, dots and specks. Little red-colored specks with a diameter of one to several millimeters, forming concentric rings with silvered reflections. One of the two Chinese miners seen here in the foreground gathers specks of gold using a hand implement, known as a riddle. Floaters are tiny spots or specks that seem to float across your eyes. From here the panorama was different and the foreground had rolling hills dotted by tiny, shiny specks which were actually slate tiled roofs reflecting sunlight. When he wiped a few invisible specks of dust from the cantle, Isabella knew he was simply stalling for words, turning the situation over in his mind. Margaret stood, brushing invisible specks of grass off of her skirt. Donders' interest in ophthalmology began in 1847 with a study of muscae volitantes, the problem of specks seen floating before the eye. Select a higher value to reduce fading, or a lower value to reduce specks or streaking in high density print areas. These technologies identify the sources of origin of the individual minute specks of pollutants and map their pathways through the air. These could be particles such as small specks of dust or nitrogen and oxygen molecules. For the photographer this means and end to annoying dust specks and time-intensive retouching. When the sausage is cut, the meat looks reddish to pink with white specks and the stuffing appears perfectly homogenous. We all see spots, specks and things that look like dark bits of string floating in our eyes on occasion. Show More Sentences Fresh stony meteorites may have a whitish rock interior, with bright metal specks. On young shoots, small black specks develop into oblong streaks and finally cause shoot death. The Despeckle effect filter removes the random dots and specks that so often appear in images, especially when the image is dithered to reduce colors or exhibits artifacts from compression. Dust specks drift through a shaft of light in Grand Central Station. Theo and the little girl were now little more than two indistinct specks shimmering in the heat haze, a mirage that was beginning to flicker and break up. The ground underfoot was still hopelessly boggy, and as I jumped the half metre distance from the van to the floor, little specks of mud flew everywhere. She could even see individual specks of dust floating in the air. It surprised me the attention Stan paid to the tiniest of dust specks. The tonsils and back of the throat may be covered with a whitish coating, or appear red, swollen, and dotted with whitish or yellowish specks of pus. Taking slow, deep breaths, Roy recovered from the fit of coughing, and looked down at the handkerchief, frowning at the specks of blood that were on it. Silverman also does some clever but clean accessorizing at the raw bar — for instance, the little specks of spring onion and the hint of orange on the puck of fluke tartare. You can even pick up the specks of different colors in an actor's eyes, or see individual sweat drops on a football player-details you could never see through regular television. You bump into a cloud where you meet millions of other specks, just like you, and you kind of enjoy this life on cloud nine, drifting around in the blue before you find yourself being covered by moisture. Gravity does not move through matter in waves, nor is it composed of tiny specks of matterlike photons. Lotions, powders and gels with bits of glitter look cool-but those tiny, shiny specks can get into your eyes and cause irritation and problems with your contact lenses. These myriads of differentiated specks of the ONE LIFE are to be found at different stages of awakening and are making the long struggle back to the One Source carrying with them the essence of their experiences. They also say that it is generated in another rock similar to saline marble but of a duller colour, and in still another rock whose colour is yellow with many red specks in it. She turned off the bed-head light in this tiny, low-ceiled rolling home of hers, raised the curtain and watched the specks of light streak by. The minges and noseeums had found her now, so many of them buzzing around her head that her vision seemed to dance with black specks. One common product, the lapis lazuli, was a blue stone with golden specks, which was used as paint after it was ground into powder. Show More Sentences The sun, with its specks of planets, its dust of planetoids, and its impalpable comets, swims in a vacant immensity that almost defeats the imagination. Mohrite, a member of the picromerite group, is a new species for MSH, recently analysed by microprobe and Xray at the Canadian Museum of Nature. It occurs as minute specks on pyrite. Empty specks of rock do duty as stand-ins for wider and even touchier historical issues. Things would be better if Japan were now readier to call a slave's spade a spade. The system works well because the bird spends much of its leisure nibbling at its feathers, cleaning off any specks of dirt and rehooking the barbules. The zing of the lemon juice and real specks of pepper delivers on taste. However, if, on the contrary, it is the starkness of rock you are looking for, our skilled craftsmen will inlay specks of mica, like those found in a glistening stone or the inside of a shell. Nick Munnelly was standing in an alley in the cold at the rear of the Bay Pearl hotel, smoking and picking at the threads, the linty specks, snarled in the hairs of his forearm. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages. Jennifer Joyce, jenniferjoyce.co.uk You can't go wrong with a toasted cheese sandwich, but you can make it even better with a few fiery specks of green chilli. Harvest mites cause intense itching and are just visible as orange-red specks on the skin. The remaining organic-rich matter is then piped to a percolator, which washes and aerates it, removing specks of glass, metal and plastics and dissolving some carbon. Because it is processed particularly carefully, the finished product is a perfectly light colour without dark specks, and highly viscous in consistency. Some specks and Canadas were in the air, but you can't shoot them after noon until mid-October in Sask. Kiribati consists of 33 atolls, tiny specks of narrow land made of coral, sand and limestone, barely three metres above sea level, in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean. With bazillions of snowflakes crystalizing over dust specks and falling to Earth, why don't the clouds run out of nuclei? The red specks that punctuate this rhythmical bird ballet, and the round eyes that seem to glare at you with strange insistency, convey a weird sense of unspoken threat. The gold, both in the quartz and mullock, is very fine, and, owing to the soft and ferruginous nature of the stuff, specks can but very rarely be seen during working. Using an ink-jet-printed array of known quantities of drugs, researchers calibrated their spectroscopy techniques to measure specks of the chemicals. An illuminated manuscript is not considered illuminated unless one or many illuminations contained gold foil or was brushed with gold specks, a process known as burnishing. The first detail an illuminator considered when dealing with gold was whether to use gold leaf or specks of gold that could be applied with a brush. Show More Sentences The mass of gilbertite in the specimens in my possession, is mixed with dark purple fluor spar, and with specks of another mineral, which has the aspect of apatite. He sent the spawnlings to the French Institute, and the delicate unorganized bantlings were all obstetrically laid out, like so many yellow specks on a sheet of Indian paper! Most specks harvested in Arkansas are likely taken on a passing shot while a waterfowler is duck hunting, given that specks frequent the same fields as puddle ducks. Examples from Classical Literature The ink was a pale blue in places, deepening to a strong blue in other places, with grainy blue specks. It swept toward the dome and dissociated into a myriad specks which were aircraft. It is these starch grains which form many of those bright specks that we see dancing in a ray of light sometimes. The sphere was transparent, you see, imbedded with dark microscopic specks. At the time of metamorphosis, young are dark brown with specks of black and with a dark, cuneate, leaflike middorsal mark. The skin had been torn away, displaying the rosy flesh, studded with dark specks. It was claimed that in this way the presence of specks of oxide was avoided. These specks are often found on foodstuffs that have not been properly protected. In the vast steppe, bathed in sunshine, he could just see, like black specks, the nomads' tents. It exists as small specks in the centre of grains of magnetite. There are a few tiniest specks of brown on either side the midrib. Floaters look like gray or black specks in front of our eyes that move when our eyes move. Not only this, but on the table I found a small ball of black dough or clay, with specks of something which looks like sawdust in it. Now he saw, just beyond the long shadows, a dozen specks rising and falling among the sands. Then I began to notice that there were some quaint little specks floating in the rays of the moonlight. It is something to squander and throw to the four winds, for the fun of seeing the golden specks fly. As his eyes glowed, it resolved itself into its component specks. A bugle note was heard, and a cluster of black specks was distinguishable against the snows of the upper heights. Do not put blueing into suds, as it makes specks in the flannel. She had wiped all the specks off this, and was going to set it on the mantel, where the children could see it. Show More Sentences When I saw a shining helmet of ice projecting above the clouds, I tried to imagine I saw files of black specks toiling up it roped together with a gossamer thread. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of specks? Words that rhyme with specks What is the adjective for specks? What is the noun for specks? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words speckly speckling speckless speckles speckled speckle specky specs spect SPECT spectacle Spectacle 6-letter Words Starting With s sp spe spec speck