Sentence examples for flake from inspiring English sources

'flake' is a perfectly acceptable word in written English.
It can be used as both a noun meaning "a thin, flat piece of something" and a verb meaning "to come off or away in flakes or small pieces". For example: "The paint had flaked off the wall, revealing patches of the old color underneath."

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flake

noun

A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, paint, or fish.

  • There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls.

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When your bacon joint is tender, remove from the heat and flake off the meat.

It's ridiculous to focus on one flake".

Over a low heat, flake in the salmon, 2 tbsp of creme fraiche, half a handful of ripped-up dill, salt and pepper.

Jack's tip For a more substantial meal, wilt the spinach, flake the mackerel and toss through a short, fat pasta.

Artists still preferred lead-based flake and Cremnitz white to safer titanium, and sought out the dwindling supplies.

Ron Paul's intellectual iconoclasm is refreshing and different, but, face it, he's also something of a flake.

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It is characterized by a series of more or less contemporary flake-tool assemblages, each of which displays local features.

Although the large, sharp-edged flakes struck from the pebble were themselves useful for light cutting and scraping, it was not until perhaps 40,000 years ago that there was a development of flake-tool industries in which preshaped flakes were purposefully detached from a core that was then discarded.

Jeff Flake Birth Dec. 31, 1962, Snowflake, Ariz.

In fact, we've found that Obama has no less than 44 confirmed cousins in the Senate, including Texas Republican Ted Cruz (the husband of Obama's 14th cousin, once removed) and Arizona Republican Jeff Flake Obamaa's eighth cousin, three times removed).

"It is clear we wouldn't be here without that information," Republican senator Jeff Flake told the Huffington Post.

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