How To Use Speck In A Sentence

Choose a white form if you want to add a bit more light to proceedings but, in my humble opinion, speckled purple is the best. Times, Sunday Times
The phenomenon, called droop, has been a focus of Mr. Nakamura and other faculty members at University of California, Santa Barbara, including Soraa co-founders Steve DenBaars and James Speck . The Quest for Cheaper, Better Lights
If they receive a second exposure with a low intensity light, developer anions adsorbed to the surface sensitivity centers effectively repel the photoelectrons so that surface latent image specks cannot form.
Large numbers of vestal moths and a few crimson speckled moths, both normally resident in the Mediterranean, have been seen on the south-west and south-east coasts and in Gwynedd.
Take the white of one egg, and measure just as much cold water; mix the two well, and stir stiff with confectioners 'sugar; add a little flavoring, vanilla, or almond, or pistache, and, for some candies, color with a tiny speck of fruit paste. A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl

Galicians specialize in trencherman food: suckling pig, grilled skate, pulpy octopus speckled with sea salt and paprika.
Speckle tracking in migrating cells with retrograde flow had turned out to be more challenging.
Then you have these reversible jackets, which have bronzed satin type fabric on one side and oatmeal speckles on the other.
The book is full of scientific observations of creatures such as the sea speckle, the red poison needle, the oleander, the bluebottle or coral. From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón - review
From the cooler water morwong, to a splendid angelfish and the brightly speckled hawkfish, this oceanic haven in the middle of a vast sea vibrates to the rhythm of the Pacific's currents.
The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin
And it's the only speck of land in an area of the ocean about the size of the continental United States.
Despite noticeable speckles, nicks and the odd scratch, the first reel of the film looks quite good with excellent contrast and sharp images.
Below the window hung a flyspecked oil painting of the Last Supper. Hunting Season
When I stood on my native hills, and saw plain and mountain stretch out to the utmost limits of my vision, speckled by the dwellings of my countrymen, and subdued to fertility by their labours, the earth's very centre was fixed for me in that spot, and the rest of her orb was as a fable, to have forgotten which would have cost neither my imagination nor understanding an effort. Introduction, I.1
Specks of paint found at the scene were found to match the accused's car.
Others are swamp blue aster, a pink turtlehead, speckled joe-pye weed, great lobelia, Pennsylvania buttercup, and several kinds of sedges.
Carlton Beach on Saturday was specked with stars, champagne and fine food.
Not a ripple troubles the surface, not a single speck of dust clouds the glassy stillness. Times, Sunday Times
Some crystals grow to a much bigger size giving granite a speckled appearance.
Detail was muddled, and there were occasional specks and flecks in the print.
These colours can be speckled or spiced up with added sparkle and are available in perfectly smooth or textured options. Times, Sunday Times
The bird, a lovely white-and-brown speckled ring-necked dove, dozed off from the comfortable heat of the room as she wrote her letter.
Please tell more about them, mother," said Marjorie, coming up with her hands full of yellow, speckled adder's-tongue. Our Little Canadian Cousin
There you have it - the two sources of flyspecks - saliva and fecal matter.
Along woodland paths, or alongside tall hedgerows, speckled wood butterflies flit between the sun and the shade. Times, Sunday Times
Beautiful greenhead, out on the fields speckles are cackling their wild lorelei; Contest: Translate Duck Speak, Win Decoys (and More!)
'Up wi' him! 'cried Madge wi' the Fiery Face, who had just been loosed from the 'jougs,' wherein she had been confined for 'kenspeckle incontinence.' Border Ghost Stories
These colours can be speckled or spiced up with added sparkle and are available in perfectly smooth or textured options. Times, Sunday Times
Choose a white form if you want to add a bit more light to proceedings but, in my humble opinion, speckled purple is the best. Times, Sunday Times
The Earth is not important in the cosmos, it is a tiny speck surrounded by this vast emptiness. Times, Sunday Times
This choice allowed us to travel comfortably with the wind at our backs while viewing the constant vista of mountains and valleys, the ice-speckled Atlantic Ocean in the distance dotted with floes of drift ice from Quebec and Labrador.
A tiny speck is all that is required to set your dinner on fire - probably not the best way to keep out the cold. The Sun
Add the tomatoes and cook for 7-8 minutes or until the broccoli is lightly charred and the speck is crisp. Times, Sunday Times
The females are speckled brown; the males, mostly white. Times, Sunday Times
Other species lured by the Indian summer include the distinctive crimson speckled, the dainty vestal moth and Spoladea recurvalis, an extremely rare tropical species. Indian summer sees exotic moths fly in
Sandwiches are a specialty, especially the porchetta with fennel and the meaty forza Italia, put together with speck, prosciutto, cheese and arugula.
Wildlife spotted in East SussexButterflies (13) meadow brown; hedge brown; speckled wood; essex skipper; small skipper; large skipper; comma; small tortoiseshell; large white; small white; green-veined white; purple hairstreak; white admiral How to get back to nature when camping
One man who has known him since those earliest days is Joe Miles, a kenspeckle figure in Ulster rugby, who was chairman of the selectors when Humphreys was first picked to represent the province.
It can be recognized as oval to irregular spots or blotches with ash gray centers and the presence of black fungal bodies speckled over the lesion surface.
Gatekeeper and speckled wood butterflies flit between hemp agrimony, dusty ferns, patches of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and blue tufted vetch. Country diary: St Stephens-by-Saltash
Strictly on the facts of the case, they are correct: The American archipelago is just a series of flyspecks compared to its Soviet predecessor.
Her cheeks were flushed with excitement and a speckled dove with an injured leg perched on her shoulder. Times, Sunday Times
The most we'll do is clean up the odd speck of dust. Times, Sunday Times
People cling firmly to the belief that reality is the world outside of the mind and that the individual is one small speck on a global spaceship. THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF MARKETING
In the winter time they had their taffety gowns of all colours, as above-named, and those lined with the rich furrings of hind-wolves, or speckled lynxes, black-spotted weasels, martlet skins of Calabria, sables, and other costly furs of an inestimable value. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
By now your paddling mates are a speck in the distance, the rhythmic flash of the sun on their paddle blades a galling reminder of the way this sport should be played.
Dubbed Pleasant Island in the 18th Century by the captain of a passing British ship - it is the world's smallest independent republic, a coral speck dwarfed by the vastness of the Pacific Ocean.
The inshore division recognizes eight species: croaker, black drum, flounder, gafftop catfish, gar, redfish, sheepshead, and speckled trout.
The artist mixes water with oil sometimes, so that, as the two liquids separate out on the canvas, a speckled effect of marbling is achieved.
But this level of clampdown, with every nickel being flyspecked before we can spend it, is unprecedented in my experience, the person said. Budget Rift at CFTC Pulls Plug on Alarm
Add the speck or pancetta and cook until golden and crispy. Times, Sunday Times
The flower color, which is a wine red with a generous amount of speckles and spots, is also somewhat variable.
Trying to watch a football match on this was like witnessing ants chasing a speck of dust. Times, Sunday Times
Looking tense and tired, Smith watched as Cherry and Lutz flyspecked his creation. The Fast And The Luxurious
At dusk bunches of these tireless birds rise so high that they become mere crescentic specks in the darkening sky.
Last year in the Czech Republic, Prague was bespeckled with ads for a new hypermarket called Cesky Sen (Czech Dream).
There was complete and utter silence as Maggie looked around and the train puffed slowly away, gaining speed until it was a speck at the end of the valley.
Blue skies speckled with tiny fleeces of cloud made it a glorious afternoon in Knock.
Gatekeeper and speckled wood butterflies flit between hemp agrimony, dusty ferns, patches of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and blue tufted vetch. Country diary: St Stephens-by-Saltash
She waited, and when it moved again she saw it, a speck of shining beauty even on this dull morning: a kingfisher. FOLLY
My mother certainly dreamed of something similar and openly fantasised about which one of the children she could have adopted in order to make room for nine feet of MFI'd speckled faux-granite laminate and four tall stools, on which she could perch breakfasting on peach Ski yoghurt, drinking Mellow Bird's with Carnation evaporated milk and being, in a lot of ways like Heather Locklear from Dynasty, but living in Currock, Carlisle. How Britain fell in love with breakfast
It is a tiny speck on the map. Times, Sunday Times
And other chunks of marbleized and speckled soap are mixed with river rocks in a slotted dish. Snow White's House: A Genius For Still Life
Yes | No | Report from mlutz95 wrote 43 weeks 4 days ago ocean kayaks make great kayaks. the model "speck" is what we have. I'm looking into buying a sit-on-top kayak for coastal fishing, and hoping to spend around $500.
The result is a nicely marked speckled faced ewe lamb with good confirmation and vigor.
The diversity of speckling is most pronounced in passerine birds (the perching or songbirds that make up 60 percent of all bird species).
Every one also has easels standing tall, accompanied by a weathered table speckled with paint and sporting a paintbox and palettes.
The ship was a mere speck on the horizon.
A tiny speck is all that is required to set your dinner on fire - probably not the best way to keep out the cold. The Sun
The freshness of ingredients really stood out, as not a single speckled leaf, wilted green or bitter endive was to be found.
I left the residence to walk down to the office, and saw that the lake was speckled with faintly glowing dots.
The image is clean and sharp for the most part, with only random flaws from the source print - some graininess, a few flyspecks - cropping up here and there.
Authorities say hundreds of thousands remain stranded after their homes and villages were inundated, clinging to the roofs of houses or whatever dry speck of land they can find. 1.2 Million Homeless After Floods | Disinformation
Experts told the Appeal judges that the speck was too small for anyone to say where it had come from. The Sun
YOU'D struggle to spot it, but the tiny speck in the bottom right of this amazing image is Earth. The Sun
Closing my eyes I can see, across the boggy run, a six-foot alligator erupting from the speckled combination of dark water and bright bladderwort.
You can't find a speck of dirt on the ground or a scratch on the wall. The Sun
Across one cheek was a scrape; tiny smears of dried blood speckled her mottled skin below her eye.
A newborn rosie somewhat resembles a gray-speckled trout, with only a hint of the trademark pink breast.
I knew the limekiln as well as I knew the old Battery, but they were miles apart; so that, if a light had been burning at each point that night, there would have been a long strip of the blank horizon between the two bright specks. Great Expectations
When he wiped a few invisible specks of dust from the cantle, Isabella knew he was simply stalling for words, turning the situation over in his mind.
It is a tiny speck on the map. Times, Sunday Times
Following the Industrial Revolution, many trees became blackened by smoke and on these the speckled moths were suddenly highly conspicuous.
Eggs three or four, rosy or faint purplish white, thickly sprinkled with specks and spots of darker rufescent purple or claret colour. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
The concerned expert introduced that dispels the yellow speckle to from treat the primary affection to obtain.
What happened to the family of a gold-toothed Japanese soldier who died so horribly on a flyspeck of a Pacific island?
Aircraft do really travel through the skies, even if they are only seen as tiny specks from the ground.
I was awed by the sight of a helium neon laser with its glowing discharge tube emitting an intense collimated beam of red laser light that produced an otherworldly speckle pattern. Theodor W. Hänsch - Autobiography
Age-related speckles and scratches are essentially non-existent.
With specks of gravy on his tie and the heavy smell of garlic, his dinner is a dead giveaway.
Please tell more about them, mother," said Marjorie, coming up with her hands full of yellow, speckled adder's-tongue. Our Little Canadian Cousin
The young birds, which are speckled brown like the hens, tend to lurk beneath the hedge. Times, Sunday Times
They should have given him a garland of the speckled leaves and stems of oxtongue, for falsehood. Wildfire
Yes," agreed Peaches enthusiastically, twisting away her head, "and I like the milk and the meat -- gee, I like the _meat_, only Mickey wouldn't give me but a tiny speck 'til he asked the Sunshine Nurse Lady. Michael O'Halloran
Its back is speckled with light markings, and its tail is barred with black.
He brushed a speck of dust from his sleeve as he waited for the silence he required.
Choose a white form if you want to add a bit more light to proceedings but, in my humble opinion, speckled purple is the best. Times, Sunday Times
Age-related speckles and the like are remarkably few.
When it was tested the stone revealed 13 specks of gold.
He was hard at work on his magnum opus: a painting, six feet tall, of the Savior's slaughter on the cross, a feral Pollockian image simultaneously repelling and exhilarating; the colors clamored in crimsons and yellows, blacks and speckled, blue blots.
She ensures that not a speck of dust is found, not a bed is left unmade and not a flower remains unarranged.
I could feel the cold starting to numb my ears and cheeks, and a few stray rainspecks hit my skin.
The small mine dumps have produced the locality's most colorful datolites, which are translucent to almost transparent and occur in flesh tones with red speckling and veining.
It was a brilliant speck of chilli in a sea of wallpaper paste.
The speckle noise is the inherent noise pattern evoked by the mechanism of ultrasound imaging. It brings great difficulties to the feature extraction, recognition and analysis.
Steve was obviously tall, about 6, and had brown hair which was speckled modestly with grey on the front and sides.
There's also a crunchy peanut-butter tart, topped with an iridescent scoop of celery sorbet and speckled with crushed pistachios.
The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporise as occasion arises. Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals
Not a ripple troubles the surface, not a single speck of dust clouds the glassy stillness. Times, Sunday Times
It was a strange coloured little creature, speckled brown like tortoiseshell.
A blackbird's egg is blue with brown speckles on it.
Add the speck or pancetta and cook until golden and crispy. Times, Sunday Times
Generally, I like my pancake served speckled side up.
Billy leaned forward and brushed a speck of dust off his shoes.
The excrement of a bedbug gives a characteristic speckled appearance to their harbourages.
The canopy was impossibly tall and daylight bespeckled between the leaves like the stars in the night sky. The Gerrymandering Mind | Heretical Ideas Magazine
Salty perspiration trickled down his forehead and burned his eyes as he looked up at the flyspecked calendar. Historical Novel about...Pembina
A blackbird's egg is blue with brown speckles on it.
The tonsils and back of the throat may be covered with a whitish coating, or appear red, swollen, and dotted with whitish or yellowish specks of pus.
Some birds flew by, leaving specks of pollen behind.
The team carried out meticulous studies of the birds' eggshells to show that speckled areas of shells are significantly thinner than unpigmented patches.
An assortment of bruises in varying shade of purple and blue speckled my usually smooth, olive colored skin.
Keeping a wary eye on the black speck above him, Sam urged Sprout on. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
Lovely birds: classic thrushy speckles with the addition of a creamy eyebrow and bricky-red flanks. Times, Sunday Times
The path was empty, save for a faint sobbing sound and a tiny speck of a figure in the distance.
Brown ant-like specklet worn by nenuphar in crown. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It's one small speck and it flicks about as I move my eye. The Sun
Slices of black bread like placemats irregularly bespeckle the dining room floor.
Along woodland paths, or alongside tall hedgerows, speckled wood butterflies flit between the sun and the shade. Times, Sunday Times
Beneath flyspecked sash windows and an array of rusting metal advertisements stood a row of block-ice coolers.
Every spring the moorhens build themselves a nest on a raft of twigs or on the bank at the waterline, for a clutch of speckled brown eggs to bring off a hatch of four or five tiny brown-black chicks.
They extend applicable scope of laser speckle photography in study of heat transfer.
Benign breast growths - noncancerous ones - can also contain calcium specks.
From the top deck I can see the speckled effect of gum on pavements. Times, Sunday Times
In the past, we have enjoyed a traditional Welsh treat called a bara brith which means "speckled bread". Archive 2009-03-01
The tightly knit skin is speckled and a bit dirty, but easily peeled; the segments fill the pith and have two pips each. Food Watch
I hope you don't mind but my coworkers took sips so there are a few more speckles of backwash in it now.
Even the teleporter has been upgraded -- say goodbye to the "speckle" and hello to the "swirl. Local News from Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Most cultivated bananas are seedless, but the memories of seeds remain as brown specks within the flesh.
A refractometer, which is a telescope-looking contraption that uses a speck of the fruit's juice to measure the Brix. Serious Eats
Everything is being scrubbed mercilessly so that not a speck of dust or grime will survive into the new year.
Pinzote, the stalk of the banana tree, was once dumped into Costa Rican rivers, but is now made into smooth, faintly speckled paper.
The 11 other ‘dollarized’ countries are flyspecks like Monaco, Liechtenstein, and Andorra.
Blended checks, speckled materials and colourful herringbones amid reversible two colour fabrics all make impact.
She was two or three shades lighter than the man, and had the peculiar brown, kinky hair, straight, flat nose, and speckled, gray eyes which mark the metif. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Her cheeks were flushed with excitement and a speckled dove with an injured leg perched on her shoulder. Times, Sunday Times
Speck disagreed with my assessment of the dream and my theory that dreams are easily analyzed and interpreted.
Other impurities that were at different concentrations in the hydrothermal solutions were incorporated in the growth of the nodule and formed bands of varying widths, speckling, and veining.
Among some ground-nesting waterbirds, such as gulls and plovers, research has shown that speckling aids egg camouflage.
I would get this really happy feeling when I was putting on my coat if I could look around and everything was nice: the glasses turned upside down and shining, the carpet speckless and smooth like a mowed lawn, the pillows on the bed fat and indented. We
As a schoolboy I once scattered a little on my desktop, a fly landed on a speck and blew itself to smithereens. Times, Sunday Times
The problem with the walk across the beach is that it is a stone beach, not a speck of sand in sight, and I am wearing stiletto-heeled mules.
It seemed obvious that all this operator handling must be contributing to the black specks.
The walls were dark gray and bare, but Horton speckled and painted the floors of the auditorium aisles with free-form designs.
This would be a fine accompaniment to a meal-sized toasted honey baked ham bagel, also filled with thick cut Swiss cheese, whole grain mustard, crisp lettuce and a daub of herb-speckled mayonnaise.
Her little house was in spotless, speckless order from top to bottom. Chronicles of Avonlea
The source material looks to have been in but middling shape, since the disc shows a fair bit of speckling with scratches and debris noticeable, particularly at the start and at reel changes.
It's been a good week for the kenspeckle Labour MP George Galloway.
There is a fair amount of speckling, a bit of debris, and some grain in evidence, but no edge effects.
She played with the edges of the turquoise colored polka dots specking her pajama bottoms.
On the upper side of these spots may be seen little black specks, which microscopic examination shows to be spermogonia, resembling those of the lichens. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
The latter are dumplings made with Bauernspeck, carefully cured and smoked bacon, a prominent speciality of the whole of the Tyrol.
He had a grizzled beard with small specks of white running through the black.
Her hand brushed a speck of lint from her skirt.
These colours can be speckled or spiced up with added sparkle and are available in perfectly smooth or textured options. Times, Sunday Times
When he came down, speckless after his bath, he found his mother scrupulous in a low evening dress, and, to his annoyance, his Uncle In Chancery
All over the world, if not every day then in every age, beautiful paintings and poems and pieces of music and buildings are generated: one can almost imagine little flaring lights on the surface of the earth, like those seen in photos from space, though they are much more sparse and scattered than the illuminating devices that bespeckle our globe. PoetryFoundation.org
Beyond them was a flat snowy pasture, speckled with a few blackened shrubs, and even further away, a dark band between snow and sky, was the huge wall.
As the speckled storm-cock singeth from the scant-leaved hawthorn-bough, Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys
Her short hair was specked with gray and her face contained only a few wrinkles.
Each blade is antiqued, flyspecked, and sealed.
Some are plain, some are colorful, some speckled or scribbled.
Not a speck of cloud is to be seen.
His view encompassed the harbor and the faint lights of villas that speckled the hillside beyond. CORMORANT
If you take out all the over-travel, all it takes is a speck of dirt or unburned powder in the wrong place and the gun won't fire.
Another kenspeckle figure in Scottish training ranks is Andrew Crow, whose five-year-old gelding Witch Wind did well to finish second.
They are soft brown in colour and speckled like an egg.
If मरुत marút may be so etymologized, such that these storm gods 'crush' and 'pummel' with thunder3 rather than 'shine' through lightning, then surely so may Sanskrit márīci- 'mote or speck in the air' or 'particle of light' be likewise attributed to the homophonous root referring to crushing, grinding and wearing things away. Rubbing away the shine (2)
With specks of gravy on his tie and the heavy smell of garlic, his dinner is a dead giveaway.
Choose a white form if you want to add a bit more light to proceedings but, in my humble opinion, speckled purple is the best. Times, Sunday Times
The square of metal grille is speckled with paint of a colour it was once but is no longer supposed to be. Times, Sunday Times
The purple flames subsided, and Suka reseated herself, wiping invisible specks of dust from her apron.
Ipomea quamoclet; from about one half its length upwards, it sends out on all sides, ascendent branches which divide again and again; these terminate with large tubular or funnel formed flowers; their limbs equally divided into five segments; these beautiful flowers are of a perfect rose colour, elegantly besprinkled on the inside of their petals with crimson specks; the flowers are in great abundance and together with the branches and delicately fine cut leaves, compose a conical spike or compound pannicle. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
Porpoises, snow-white terns sitting on drifting wood, sea-eagles, ospreys, sea-snakes, sails, the smudge of steamer-smoke and its ten-mile plume, sunlit isles and speckless sky, with no sound save the purring of the engine and the prattle of the water against the bows — a catalogue of the commonplace, and yet stimulative of entertainment and content. Last Leaves from Dunk Island
An hour and there was a speck of yellow on the horizon as tiny as an aphid.
The blame lies with the plant's appearance – it has speckled leaves and its flowers are well-hidden, but their spathe (the special leaf that protects the flowers of an arum) and spadix (the spike on which the flowers are arranged), are said to resemble male and female genitalia. The power of spring flowers
I've got a speck of dirt on my shirt.
They mournfully gazed at the empty floor that was earlier that day full of brown eggs speckled with grey spots.
You can't find a speck of dirt on the ground or a scratch on the wall. The Sun
His short, brown hair was tousled, greasy, and specked with dirt.
a speck of dust / dirt. You can also say:a speck of light.
How can you say to your brother, ——Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye.
Have you so quickly forgotten those boys at the mews, of not enough years even for hairs to bespeckle their chins?
You must keep your buttons, accoutrements, and rifle speckless, and have your hair cut in a style which is not becoming to your particular type of beauty.
I do remember we played for keepsies and I won a nice collection of clearies, cat-eyes (the purple/green combos were my favorites), a few highly prized speckled eggs, aggies (agates), alleys (alabaster/marble), steelies, and even a few boulders.
All would have been well but for the seductions of a certain ice-cream parlor where candy, apples and cigars were temptingly displayed in a window, draped genteely with a fly-specked lace lambrequin. Chicken Little Jane
The eggs are usually three in number, of a rosy or purplish white, sprinkled over rather numerously with deep claret or rufescent purple specks and spots. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
When burned, high-sulfur fuels emit sulfur dioxide in the form of microscopic soot particles known as particulates - specks so small they can be breathed into the deepest parts of the lung. Columnist: Keith Groller
The child could accurately be described as cute: her large, smiling green eyes dotted with hazel specks and golden hair that flew astray as she danced in the sunlight.

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