Sentence examples for a speck on from inspiring English sources

I returned the following year, around Thanksgiving, determined to get a bird for a holiday supper, and this time saw one: a speck on the horizon, running away at an impressive speed.

For more than a century, Dabiq was one of northern Syria's forsaken villages, a speck on a vast agricultural plain between the Turkish border and the deserts of Iraq, which hardly seemed likely to shape the fate of nations.

The camera closed in on a speck on the snowfield.

From high up, he was a speck on the stage.

The UN blunder is a speck on Djinguereber's proud history.

And I was nothing more than a speck on Algonquin.

There's only so many times you can watch a tiny speck on a massive stage doing something with his arms in a DJ booth without it becoming repetitive.

We may think we are a tiny speck on a planet in our world and we cannot possibly make a difference, but our thinking is wrong.

There is grandeur to the mastery of nature, and Baumgartner – as a falling speck on a curving horizon – delivered that quality in spades.

A white speck on a black background.

The camera pans at the end to show the panorama from Broadway, where Matta-Clark is a speck high on the skyline, nearly invisible.