Sentence examples for flaked away from inspiring English sources

From the latter it appeared as if the coating had been scratched and then flaked away parallel to the scratches.

Using his wife's knitting needles, Dart flaked away the rock matrix, and a tiny face was revealed.

Much of the paint has flaked away or is loose beneath milky sheets of tissue paper and wax that were applied for emergency stabilization in 1994.

The upper half of the walls was brown, except where paint had flaked away to reveal an undercoat of muddy blue.

"Some of the plaster had flaked away so that you could see the wire," said Juan Men chaca, curator of the Cowboy Hall of Fame Museum.

But the joy of a historical novel is that it chivvies the dead into dancing life, revealing the humanity that has flaked away from the official record.

Here and there lie huge chalk boulders – hunks of regolith, slowly flaking away.

Then he will flake away the remaining granite with jack hammers and oil torch.

Dan Brown is back with another thriller so moronic you can feel your IQ points flaking away like dandruff.

Patches of pale green and brown on sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) periodically flake away to reveal a creamy white inner bark.

It is believed that acne begins when pores are plugged by bits of skin that become sticky instead of flaking away, Dr. Franks said.