Flecks Definition & Meaning

Examples of fleck in a Sentence

Verb She flecked the canvas with blue paint. to achieve the desired effect, fleck the canvas with paint simply by flicking the brush close to the surface Noun a brown cloth with flecks of yellow The police found flecks of blood on his clothes.

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb That quote would seem to portend a mournful reflection on death and the sacrifices of art, but sparks of illumination, irreverence, tragicomedy and even joy continually fleck the material. — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2022 Super-yachts, sailboats, and inflatables crowd the marinas and fleck the horizon. — Rachel Howard, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2021 Curreri and Sproule had spent time in Nairobi, collaborating with Kenyan musicians, and a few songs are flecked with West African rhythms and burbling bass lines. — Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 14 Mar. 2020 No movie star could have pulled off the role of Mister Rogers—a kind of pop-culture saint—except Tom Hanks, who radiates a pastor’s goodness flecked with self-awareness. — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2020 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 Lopez, meanwhile, wore cream colored nails flecked with Lakers gold. — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 25 Feb. 2020 This eatery near Sunnyslope serves churros glazed with honey, chocolate or vanilla, flecked with toppings including almond slices, sprinkles and crushed Oreo cookies. — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, azcentral, 3 Feb. 2020 Big Mozz, a New York company that was expecting to serve about half a million pounds of pecorino- and parsley-flecked mozzarella sticks at seasonal events this year, had planned to hire 200 people. — Pete Wells, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Down the hill is Ojo Caliente, a fleck of a town with a post office, two cafes and a spa with hot springs used by generations of Pueblo people before being named by 16th-century Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022 Down the hill is Ojo Caliente, a fleck of a town with a post office, two cafes and a spa with hot springs used by generations of Pueblo people before being named by 16th-century Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. — Karin Brulliard And Adria Malcolm, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2022 Imagine lying on a beach or by a pool, the sun kissing every gold fleck in your body oil and leaving you glowing (and tanned) from head to toe. — ELLE, 15 Apr. 2022 Even a fleck of paint is enough to damage the window of a spacecraft. — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2022 And this island would be the hospital’s unlikely home — more specifically, Boao, a fleck of a town on Hainan’s eastern coast. — Rebecca Ostriker, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2021 Watery with pebble- and fleck-size bits of squash and carrots that reminded me of sipping a toddler’s backwash. — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 24 Nov. 2021 Even a fleck of paint can do major damage when orbiting at 17,500 mph. — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 16 Nov. 2021 Even a fleck of paint can do major damage when orbiting at 17,500 mph (28,000 kph). — Marcia Dunn, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Nov. 2021 See More

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