Sentence examples for flakey from inspiring English sources

Out flew compostable paper plates of still-warm bialys; thick slices of flakey, bittersweet chocolate babka; corned beef scrambles; pastrami sandwiches accompanied by creamy potato salad and barrel-brined sour dill pickles.

Surround yourself with people who don't mind you being a bit absent and a bit flakey.

Not flakey salt added to cookies or brownies or sprinkled on a cupcake, but salt in the traditional, savoury sense.

Yeats was a bit flakey, too far in the past; Wilde more of an artistic statement than an artist.

How flakey is that?

The last thing you want to be is a flakey MP who doesn't turn up to hand out 200 achievement certificates to young people on stage.

The risks involved in conducting a presidential election with flakey technology in one of the globe's largest and most complex democracies were amply displayed in 2000.

"They should have known to check with me that I had flakey skin and would need the sheets changed daily," he said.

You can't help but feel happy for him because he's clearly put in the work to transform himself from skittish, flighty and a bit flakey to a consistent Test match century-maker.

And if you put something a bit flakey on Twitter for the Kent police or the road police unit, they never respond or they block you, but we're only asking for information.

The important thing – I'll just get the flag out – is that no jumped-up, made-in-Slough, mince-and-mash, flakey-pastry, crimped-on-top, just-pretending-to-be Cornish pasties can take our name in vain.