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"Speck" in a Sentence (19 examples)
He thought of himself as a speck of dust in an immensely vast universe.
The room is empty apart from the speck of dust floating in the air.
There wasn't even a speck of dust on the table.
There was not a weed left in the yard, nor a speck of dust on the floors, nor a single black grain or wild pea in the wheat.
With your propaganda, I can tell you think this world isn't just a speck of dust.
Using cutting-edge machines that can detect the chemical composition in grains of soil as small as a speck of dust, the two Goddard labs will study how the building blocks of life evolved in our solar system and how the Moon’s surface chemistry was shaped over eons by radiation from space and from the Sun.
I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.
This world is a mere speck of dust.
Propagandists, don't worry about the marketing and salesmanship of languages and religions. Most people are simply not intelligent enough to make sense of them. They're not journalists, novelists, or poets. In any case, if you knew astronomy, you would know that this world is a mere speck of dust in a big sandy beach.
Your propaganda stinks. The Earth is a mere speck of dust in a vast sandy beach. It's relativity. You worry about really nothing.
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a tiny speck of soot
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. 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.
a. 1864, Walter Savage Landor, quoted in 1971, Ernest Dilworth, Walter Savage Landor, Twayne Publishers, page 88, Onward, and many bright specks bubble up along the blue Aegean; islands, every one of which, if the songs and stories of the pilots are true, is the monument of a greater man than I am.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
He has not a speck of money.
not a speck of truth in her story.
paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture
Each flower of slender stalk, whose head though gay / Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, / Hung drooping unsustained, […]
Join'd to Theſe [birds], / Thouſands beſide, thick as the covering Leaves / VVhich ſpeck them o'er, their Modulations mix / Mellifluous.
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