Sentence examples for flecks of dust from inspiring English sources

"flecks of dust" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe small or tiny particles of dust. Example: The room was filled with flecks of dust, illuminated by the sun shining through the window.

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When we played loudly you could see little flecks of dust come down".

For one thing, it is virtually indestructible, made in such a way that the usual enemies of fine wine — heat, light and air — are shrugged off like flecks of dust.

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Of course, as they say, size matters: there's a sensuous thrill to sitting in a theatre and watching a print projected large (and I like to sit in the front row, or not far from it); the scratches and the flecks of dust are part of the story, and I'm rather sorry that digital restorationism has gone to the extreme of removing them.

Sonali can still produce her unstoppable grin, and she smiles broadly at the book as a parent might at a child, carefully wipes a few flecks of dust from its cover: "It's pretty weird, right?" The book itself, which I have been living with for the previous week or two in a proof copy from the British publisher, Virago, is much more than that, though: it is a kind of wonder of memory.

An irritation in the unit I tested: Several distracting flecks of dust in the optical viewfinder.

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These men yearn for some religious or spiritual assurance that they are more than "a fleck of dust condemned to know it is a fleck of dust".

"But if you drop a fleck of dust in it" — which helps form a hexagonal array — "it will freeze".

There was not a newspaper out of place on the coffee table or a fleck of dust in sight.

But if you play it again, this time pausing from moment to moment, a glorious new dimension opens, revealing the luminous collage of individual frames; each fleck of dust, twiggy moth leg or rounded wing form is amazingly clear.

Thus even the smallest perceptible thing, namely, a fleck of dust in a sun-beam, has parts, which are therefore invisible.

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