Sentence examples for a flake of from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a flake of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small, thin piece or fragment of something, often in a literal or metaphorical sense.
Example: "She found a flake of paint on the floor, remnants of the recent renovation."
Alternatives: "a shard of" or "a fragment of".

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A flake of gold leaf in the rich lily-bulb soup.

The New Yorker

** *** ** A flake of gold leaf in the rich lily-bulb soup.

The New Yorker

He gets a flake of hay and a bucket of grain.

The New York Times

The gel was laid over a flake of graphene, grown on copper and transferred onto an insulating substrate.

University of California, Berkeley

A flake of graphene was grown on copper and transferred onto an insulating substrate of silicon dioxide.

University of California, Berkeley

Already the moon had risen, a flake of waxy alabaster in a blue sky thin with light.

The New Yorker

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The formation of soluble alkalies at the surface can cause a flaking of thin layers there, resulting in layers that become detached and reflect and refract light differently from that of the glass body.

Encyclopedia Britannica

The local atomic structure of a flake consisting of both mono- and bilayer MoS2 was next examined by aberration (Cs) corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) in a JEOL ARM 200F instrument operated at 80 kV.

ACS Nano

About 2 h of milling is needed to fabricate the GMR powder with a flake size of (150 ±10) μm.

Advanced Materials

"What a flake!" Secretary of State James A. Baker III was said to have remarked after meeting Yeltsin.

The New York Times - Books

The SFC with a flake density of 0.33 kg/L was obtained from a commercial feedlot.

The Professional Animal Scientist

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