How to Use fleck in a Sentence

fleck

1 of 2 verb
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  • She flecked the canvas with blue paint.
  • In at least one edition of the work, the fruit is flecked with brown spots.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • My first year clean, the whole world was flecked in gold and coming at me.
    — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Time, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The paint on its walls is peeling, and the red and white sign on its roof is flecked with green.
    — Joshua Mandell, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The fries are skin-on; the potato pancakes are crisp and lacy at the edges flecked with green onion.
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The night sky is flecked with so many stars, even moonless nights seem bright.
    — Patti Davis, Town & Country, 1 Nov. 2012
  • Buchholz is warm and earnest, with short brown hair flecked with gray.
    — Aaron Reuben, Outside Online, 1 May 2019
  • Now, the bar doesn’t bread its own fish, but the cod is sweet, and the coleslaw, flecked with plenty of celery seed, is house-made.
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018
  • In the four-square-block downtown, the buildings are salt-flecked, their flanks bowed from years of moisture.
    — Matthew Shaer, New Republic, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Let sputter until nut-scented and the bottom of the pan is flecked with brown bits.
    — Leah Eskin, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Sunlight glistened on the granite counter top, which was white flecked with black and gray.
    — Lisa Scottoline, Philly.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The real star here, though, is the midnight pasta, which is flecked with guanciale and doused in grana padano, chili, and basil.
    — Amy Louise Bailey, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2018
  • Like a desert lizard, up close the town’s brick facades and streets were speckled with a range of sand-to-brown shades, flecked with pink limestone.
    — Albert Stumm, The Seattle Times, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Onion Snow, an acrylic dating from the 1980s, shows an African-American man against a snow-flecked field.
    — Bonnie L. Cook, Philly.com, 8 June 2018
  • Shrimp flecked with cilantro and garlic sizzle on a flattop.
    — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • And the right side of his face, including his matted, scraggly red beard flecked with gray.
    — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The whole movie is just a cup of sweet, empty froth, flecked liberally with fake blood.
    — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2018
  • The seafood is presented as a coral stripe on a golden canvas of rice, fragrant with sage and flecked with bits of squash.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
  • It is completely coated with a glaze that is just set, and flecked with vanilla bean.
    — Kristen Hartke, sacbee.com, 30 May 2017
  • On the newspaper’s heat map of the country, deep red spots fleck the Northeast and along the country’s northern border.
    — oregonlive.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The flaky, buttery crust flecked with salt covers a gooey concoction of chocolate, caramel and pecan.
    — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Older men, their beards flecked with soup, ate near young parents whose children had spilled food down their sweaters.
    — Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Then there are plenty of flat rocks on which to sit while dangling feet in the water and watching the dragonflies and the canyon walls flecked with red and green lichens.
    — azcentral, 15 May 2018
  • Many home cooks love the slow-and-soothing process of stirring up a creamy, cheese-flecked pot from scratch and wouldn't dream of tapping a few buttons on the microwave to yield a bowl of the goods.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 26 July 2019
  • Though concealed by the sun, the moon is still flecked with a few stray particles of light filtered through Earth’s atmosphere.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 2 July 2018
  • Naturally, the crowd was flecked with bursts of purple and yellow.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Who Needs Clothes is a champagne flecked with gold glitter—basically like the line's Gloss Bomb lip gloss for your skin but with the peach toned down.
    — Rachel Nussbaum, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Lopez, meanwhile, wore cream colored nails flecked with Lakers gold.
    — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 25 Feb. 2020
  • In the foreground, earthy brown is flecked with bright stabs of pink leaves; a towering peak beyond it cascades torrents of olive green.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
  • Now 75, his hair flecked with gray, Garvey moves slower than in his baseball heyday charging down the base paths.
    — Michael R. Blood, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
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fleck

2 of 2 noun
  • The police found flecks of blood on his clothes.
  • The shanties were pops and flecks of color in the distance.
    — Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Flames turned the sky over the city red as choking smoke and swirling flecks of ash filled the air.
    — Time, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The eatery serves them up full of the flavor of beef tallow, right down to the meaty flecks stuck to the spuds.
    — Jay Jones, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2019
  • As the tumblers rattle and spin, the rock breaks down and flecks of gold bind to the mercury.
    — National Geographic, 24 May 2016
  • As the tumblers rattle and spin, the rock breaks down and flecks of gold bind to the mercury.
    — National Geographic, 24 May 2016
  • Were there enough paint flecks to identify the type of paint?
    — Cathy Locke, sacbee, 9 Feb. 2018
  • In our tests, smoothies came out thick and smooth with no flecks of kale.
    — Good Housekeeping, 13 July 2023
  • Even a fleck of paint is enough to damage the window of a spacecraft.
    — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Don’t be misled by the flecks of greenery in the biscuit’s crust.
    — Anna Caplan, star-telegram, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The white away kit is equally stylish, with flecks of red and blue throughout the design.
    — SI.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The last shade is Rich Navy, the standout of the palette that has gold flecks and calls to mind the glimmering sea.
    — Shannon Barbour, The Cut, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Hours later in the mirror, a stray fleck of glitter is still stuck to my cheek.
    — Faran Krentcil, ELLE, 26 May 2023
  • Maybe there’s some flecks of sports detritus in that dirt.
    — Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • With the new method, Min’s group found that every liter harbored at least ten times more flecks.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
  • No discernible flecks of pepper or anything else in the crust.
    — Kathleen Purvis, charlotteobserver, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Plus, one that has a little sparkle will bring out golden flecks in the irises.
    — Catherine Devine, Allure, 7 Oct. 2017
  • The creamy formula won’t leave you with flecks of highlighter all over your face.
    — Shannon Barbour, The Cut, 18 June 2018
  • Puree until fairly smooth (there will be flecks of leeks).
    — Katie Workman, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2019
  • Its gray-blue flanks were ticked with cream flecks and its ventral fins were tinged with orange.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2018
  • To track the problem, researchers are now homing in on these seaborne flecks from more than 300 miles away—in space.
    — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2023
  • This is when, allegedly, a fleck of spit flew from my mouth and landed on her sweater.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • Even small pieces of debris — a nut or even a fleck of paint — can cause enormous damage in space.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Its gel-like consistency helps the flecks cling to your lids without the need for glue.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 11 July 2019
  • The tiny flecks peppered the jungle flora with a light patter.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2018
  • But the Black collectors were forced to ride the bus or walk home in their dank clothes covered in flecks of trash and maggots.
    — Kurtis Lee, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
  • These tiny flecks represent the last unchanged members of the stardust clouds that formed the sun and the planets.
    — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 14 Jan. 2020
  • While some brown flecks on the surface are okay, avoid mushrooms with dark-tinged areas.
    — Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press, 19 Jan. 2020
  • By night, the jets shoot water through big turbines, and when the flecks of water hit freezing air, make piles of snow.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The baby, a stranger, yet so strangely familiar, flecks of blood still stuck to her scalp.
    — Ellen Bass, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019

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