Sentence examples for black flakes from inspiring English sources

Formed precursors were black flakes of a few millimeters in diameter.

As they drive, black flakes of paper fall past her eyes: on one is a picture of Mother Teresa.

The day after the block party, two stops away on the L train near the corner of Jefferson Street and Wyckoff Avenue, Andrea Champlin stared down at the black flakes of burned newsprint fluttering from the edge of what had been her Sunday paper.

"You just notice little black flakes fall out of your eyelashes over the course of a couple days," she said.

Black flakes of translocated organic matter can often be seen on top of the exposed natric horizon alongside whitish, bleached mineral particles.

If there are fleas, you'll see small black flakes or even fleas jumping around.

There was something perversely appealing about this black flake, floating down out of a winter-bright sky into a bustling lunch=hour crows in front of the 5th Avenue Presbyterian Church, a block from the University Club.

It might have been our imagination, but from the spot where the black flake had fallen we thought we saw a cloud of tiny black particles lifted on the arms of a miniature whirlwind, to eye level, and then scattered into a hundred new directions - toward the church, toward the club, toward our own office.

People do not eat outdoors, she said, to avoid having black briquettes flake their rice.

Chunks of artisanal bread are dipped in pools of olive oil then sprinkled with Cyprus Black Lava flake salt.

He points to several elements of the house as possessed by Beetlejuice: The wallpaper, for instance, is black and flaking, dipped in sealants to give it a tar-like texture.