Sentence examples for for a speck from inspiring English sources
Gun residue was also absent from the deceased, save for a speck in his back pocket which the jury was told was scientifically irrelevant.
"Moby-Dick," one of Hohn's favorite books, guides his quest — though he's searching for a speck of yellow, not a white whale, the journey he makes is no less incredible, turning, as he writes, "a map into a world".
She hurried back to 65th and Park, where the taxi had dropped her off, and began rooting about the snow, searching for a speck of gold in mounds of city white.
A veritable Who's Who of computer scientists from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, NASA and universities across the country spent sleepless nights writing ad hoc software, creating a blog and reconfiguring satellite images so that dozens of volunteers could pore over them, searching for a speck of red hull and white deck among a sea of gray pixels.
Re "Hunting for Life in a Speck of Cosmic Dust" (July 19): "Intelligent design" theory is much more sophisticated than its critics give it credit for.
Asian-Americans, for years hardly a speck on the jigsaw puzzle of New York City's ethnic politics, are emerging this year as a force to be courted.
His tiny storm-tossed boat, for example, becomes "a speck of substance before the driving terrors of the tempest"; and the men's sleep, after long and anxious watching, becomes so sound that "no dreams could break the strong fastenings of forgetfulness in which the mind was then locked up".
All were resoundingly thrashed, a day of spectacle and fireworks that turned into a psychic inferno — England completely snubbed in the run for the 2018 World Cup, the United States passed over for oil barons in a speck of a country with 120-degree summer days, Cleveland's Cavaliers humiliated by LeBron James's triumphant return.
How do some species travel for days without eating a speck of food?
In fact, it's hard to lose one's way for long on Sant'Antioco, a speck of an island connected to Sardinia's southwestern corner by a milelong causeway.
With a historian's eye for detail, and without a speck of intended bile, Ms. Joseph reaches back five generations, tracing every branch of Ms. Middleton's family tree, exposing her "penniless," "insanitary," "scruffy" and occasionally "unsalubrious" roots, and tracing the rise of her family through the British class system.
