FLECK in a Sentence

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For FLECK, below is one of 15 sentences:
The site of the fire was now merely a circle of ashes flecked with red embers and sparks, the furze having burnt completely away.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLECK
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fleck
 v.  spot; make spot or mark onto; mark with small spots
Classic Sentence:
1  Flanks sucked in and out, the long nose resting on his paws, a fleck of foam on the nostril, there he was, his familiar spirit, his Afghan hound.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
2  And here, released by Candish, racing across the lawn with a fleck of foam on the nostril, came his dog.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
3  Then, striking upward, it threw a lustrous fleck on her lips, edged her eyes with velvet shade, and laid a milky whiteness above the black curve of her brows.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  For every sin that he committed, a stain would fleck and wreck its fairness.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
5  On the extreme verge of the horizon lie a long chain of mountain peaks, with their rugged summits flecked with snow.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
6  The wind made talking difficult, and flecked the blood into the face.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
7  The site of the fire was now merely a circle of ashes flecked with red embers and sparks, the furze having burnt completely away.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
8  It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
9  We found a short valley between rugged tors which led to an open, grassy space flecked over with the white cotton grass.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
10  And now it was flecked with white.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
11  In the distance along the course of the slow-flowing Liffey slender masts flecked the sky and, more distant still, the dim fabric of the city lay prone in haze.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
12  Red suns and tufts of fire one by one began to arise, flecking the whole country round.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
Example Sentence:
1  Her cheeks, fleck with tears, are testimony to the hours of weeping.
2  The material has a red fleck in it.
3  It's a dark grey material but it's flecked with white.