flaked

past tense of flake

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for flaked
Verb
  • Keep your eyes peeled for wild horses grazing along the ridgelines.
    Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2025
  • McCarty could see the man pounding on the doors and windows, and the 6-year-old watched on as a fire engine and ambulance peeled onto the street.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The video, filmed by someone who must have scaled one of the bridge’s three-hundred-and-ten-foot towers, is basically a eulogy created in the grip of the mind-set that caused the young girls’ deaths.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The royal couple scaled down their engagements to spend time with their three children — Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis — during their school's half-term break, and the family moved into their new home, Forest Lodge in Windsor.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
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“Flaked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flaked. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.

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