How To Use Specked In A Sentence
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The ginned cotton is carried to the platforms, where it is "specked" by the women -- leaves, dirt and other impurities being picked out by hand -- and spread out to dry and bleach in the sun; thence we follow it to the "moting-room," where it is thoroughly and finally overhauled, every minute particle of dirt or other foreign matter and every flock of stained and discolored cotton being picked out.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
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Shortly after the bridge, the road began to descend steeply while the lake continued on to the south, specked with houseboats and lake homes.
Miles to Go
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They both had the same color hair (although Eric's was specked with gray and white,) and the attitude had to run in their blood.
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Carol, looking through the flyspecked windows of the hotel, sees only rickety chairs and cuspidors, but Bea thrills to "the swell traveling man" she spies there, to the "lovely marble" soda fountain, and to all the stores — "one just for tobacco alone.
Sheer Data
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Literary controversy has always tended toward the flyspecked.
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It's all there: the dust, the cattle, the brush, the waitress in the coffee shop with the flyspecked windows.
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We got two flyspecked rooms with rattling fans and met Angel and Ruben for dinner at a pub on the front street.
Kook
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Blood spurted everywhere, some specked Wythene's face.
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Then, a few months later on the site of several former horrid flyspecked delis that failed opens a Mariachi, a Mexican place.
From Hillbilly Highway to Gourmet Row
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A fly-specked shaft of sunlight crossed the room, slipping through the shutters to splash onto the red tiles of the floor.
Wielding The Knife « A Fly in Amber
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A few fishing vessels alone specked the water, and now and then the gentle breeze wafted the sound of voices, as the fishermen called to one another.
Chapter 20
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Fluttering melodic figures, submerged in whole-tone scales and rippling intervals, escaped into the air only to evaporate into a limpid, Wagnerian fog, specked by floating dissonances.
An Otherworldly Opera
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The thick purple carpet contrasted with gray, burgundy, and violet paints that specked the walls of the penthouse interior.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum
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Fluttering melodic figures, submerged in whole-tone scales and rippling intervals, escaped into the air only to evaporate into a limpid, Wagnerian fog, specked by floating dissonances.
An Otherworldly Opera
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My eyes were brown, specked with a different shade; my hair was mid-back length, dark brown, soft and slightly curly.
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From now until 2012, he'll be flyspecked for every interaction with a special interest, lobbyist, wealthy individual, or Republican.
The What and How of Obama
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The half-mile long beach of Los Ayala is a palm fringed cove, perfect for swimming with soft, silky gold specked sand, a gradually sloping shoreline and crystal clear waters.
Los Ayala: undiscovered gem on the Nayarit coast
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The blue, blue sea, specked with whitecaps, the dramatic, green-clad peaks, and the colorful beachside villages look (especially from about a mile away) like a dream come true.
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She turns to the flyspecked oval mirror, tilted against the wall.
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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
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Carlton Beach on Saturday was specked with stars, champagne and fine food.
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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
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Looking tense and tired, Smith watched as Cherry and Lutz flyspecked his creation.
The Fast And The Luxurious
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Salty perspiration trickled down his forehead and burned his eyes as he looked up at the flyspecked calendar.
Historical Novel about...Pembina
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Beneath flyspecked sash windows and an array of rusting metal advertisements stood a row of block-ice coolers.
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Her short hair was specked with gray and her face contained only a few wrinkles.
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Each blade is antiqued, flyspecked, and sealed.
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His short, brown hair was tousled, greasy, and specked with dirt.
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Below the window hung a flyspecked oil painting of the Last Supper.
Hunting Season
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The ham was, by this stage, specked with fungus and small white things that might have been maggots.
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When confronted by dubious toilets or flyspecked markets, people here daily use the expression, "mikwob pa touye ayisyen," which translates "germs don't kill Haitians.
Amid cholera outbreak in Haiti, a scramble to get soap
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He has donned conservative business suits, trimmed down, and carefully coifed his gray-specked pompadour trademark hairstyle.
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A strong wind is pushing the surface water inland against the direction of the sea's retreat and the farther channel is specked with whitecaps among which the only bird currently visible – a merganser – bobs unconcernedly.
Country diary: South Uist
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The mustache and short beard were orange specked with gray.
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He came over the side, a sun god clad in the scarlet loin cloth, with presents of Arcady and greeting in both his hands — a bottle of golden honey and a leaf basket filled with great golden mangoes, golden bananas specked with freckles of deeper gold, golden pineapples and golden limes, and juicy oranges minted from the same precious ore of sun and soil.
"The Nature Man"
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It hurtled through a void, an immense cathedral of black pitch, specked with faint pinpoints of light whose pale luminosity underscored the darkness that shrouded them.
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It hurtled through a void, an immense cathedral of black pitch, specked with faint pinpoints of light whose pale luminosity underscored the darkness that shrouded them.