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flecked

[ UK /flˈɛkt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having a pattern of dots

How To Use flecked In A Sentence

  • A boring-sounding penne dish, tossed with crisped bits of pancetta (the unsmoked Italian bacon) and a basil-flecked cream sauce, turns out to hold interest down to the last bite.
  • The colossal arms disappearing into her coat's dolman sleeves, tweed flecked with purple and gold. THE SHIPPING NEWS
  • His brown hair is flecked with grey and he has more shiny gold buttons than anyone else. Times, Sunday Times
  • Viro heard a slither, and a hiss, and looked above; from the rafters, a furred snake hung, its tail coiled upon a rotten wooded sign, the whitish paint flecked and gone.
  • Water rushed by, brown and flecked with foam, swollen by the rain. A SEASON IN HELL
  • His brown hair is flecked with grey and he has more shiny gold buttons than anyone else. Times, Sunday Times
  • Meanwhile, nearly a calm tries the patience and wastes time; yet is the moonlit sea like a vast plain studded with glow-worms; and the noonday sea like lapis lazuli, flecked with silver. Extracts from a Lady's Log-Book,
  • I remember little about him except that he had a black beard flecked with grey, and gave me oranges.
  • He remembers her as a non-stereotypical 1950s housewife, riding her white bicycle down the middle of the high street while smoking a Woodbine and wearing rubber, high-heeled glitter-flecked galoshes.
  • Luminous stars flecked the black night sky like fireflies.
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