Noun : a fleck of dirt. ,the dapple mare with flecks of gray. From Dictionary.com.
TheRunawaySpoon's simple food processor dough yields tender, buttery coins flecked with blue cheese and black pepper. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Open House Dishes] Reference
Here comes to view the 'flecked' appearance of the iris, especially in the right eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian] Reference
The cat had long, lovely hair flecked with blood. From Wordnik.com. [BEFORE WINTER] Reference
It was still as entrancing an ocean, sun-flecked and radiant. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
The borders of the reed-dotted water were flecked with white. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
They're flecked with strange harmonies and abrupt changes of mood. From Wordnik.com. [Kurt Rosenwinkel: Old Songs, New 'Reflections'] Reference
The gold-flecked walls were both their protection and their prison. From Wordnik.com. [Zehru of Xollar] Reference
He was planning to tell her over some gold-flecked chocolate dessert. From Wordnik.com. [Jigsaw Magic] Reference
A black and gray silk turban flecked with gold thread covers his hair. From Wordnik.com. [Afghan Taliban Commander: 'We Are Not Scared'] Reference
The child's fragrance reminded Joanne of a sweet, brown-flecked banana. From Wordnik.com. [CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS] Reference
The landscape was flecked by great shadows cast by lazily moving ribbons of cloud. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
His gray-flecked hair is cropped close; a half-eaten Pizza Hut pizza sits on a table. From Wordnik.com. [The World According To Garth] Reference
She holds the phone with her chin, the blood flecked panty draped over her near shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [what you do best] Reference
A gold wash of land flecked with the green of shoulder-high scrub slides past my windows. From Wordnik.com. [So Much Silence, So Much Space] Reference
With the cable's parting an entire section of one of the gold-flecked barrier walls vanished. From Wordnik.com. [Zehru of Xollar] Reference
Hitherto Antony's happiness had been largely monochrome, flecked with tiny specks of radiance. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
It's the classic potato gratin flecked with onions and bacon, and draped with melted reblochon. From Wordnik.com. [Savoie the Fair] Reference
He breaks from cover, and there he is – a sand-flecked white bird, high-stepping across the field. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary] Reference
He circled the thick mass that loomed black against the star-flecked sky but saw not a living thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
They were all covered with dust which the crafty soldiers had thrown upon them and were flecked with sweat. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
The green of the shores was dotted with white houses, while the blue of the water was flecked with snowy sails. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
Silently the three men moved, threading the fragrant, silver-flecked blackness with practised woodsmen's skill. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
It lay blue and sparkling, flecked with a myriad moving specks of gold, as the sunshine fell on the dancing water. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Like Blake, they were standing there rigidly motionless, facing the gold-flecked barrier wall just in front of them. From Wordnik.com. [Zehru of Xollar] Reference
As I looked, idly speculating on his speed, a horseman dashed up in mad haste, his steed spent and flecked with foam. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
The sculpture "Nile" is composed of a rotting cloth sail flecked with mold and strips of leather clinging to it like algae. From Wordnik.com. [Dressed For Success] Reference
From east to west the sky was stained and flecked with crimson and gold, and our faces glowed ruddily in the reflected light. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
Then you rinse the plate and turn it upside down on the flecked Formica counter, then you wash your hands with her Ivory soap. From Wordnik.com. [Shopgirls] Reference
He had nearly bitten his swollen tongue in two falling over an unseen peat-cutting, and blood-flecked foam gathered on his lips. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
Kathleen looked out at the bright sky flecked with white clouds, at the green lawns, and the masses of colour in the flower-beds. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
Then the things 'stampede carried them hurtling on through one of the gold-flecked side walls out into the swirling purple mists. From Wordnik.com. [Zehru of Xollar] Reference
That door was shut just so for years; the lonely bars of sunlight flecked the solitude of the room, and the lilies faded on the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
With his silver-flecked hair and his gravelly voice, Gwyeth Smith Jr. has a way of making families listen to his unconventional notions. From Wordnik.com. [He’s Got Some Great Advice For You: Relax] Reference
With a blast that flecked the crests of the waves into foam, with a rattle and roar, and a vicious swish of rain, the storm broke over the. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference
"The country air is good for me," Leithauser croons on opener "Juveniles" as reverb-flecked guitar mingles with Barrick's rumbling rhythms. From Wordnik.com. [Album reviews: The Walkmen, "Lisbon" and Interpol, "Interpol"] Reference
To be sure, his hair was slightly flecked with gray, but his visage still retained its full outline, and not a wrinkle marred its masculine beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
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