Sentence examples for has flaked off from inspiring English sources

The paint has flaked off in places.

In some places, the yellow plaster is so worn that you can see the outlines of the clay tiles beneath, like capillaries under fragile skin; in other places the plaster has flaked off altogether.

I like Cucumber-Melon Mist Makeup Wipes, but if they aren't available I like to sleep in the same makeup for three or four nights in a row until my mascara has flaked off and is streaked across my pillow.

In addition, there are high quality illustrations of flora and fauna, wild men, a wide range of colours, and evidence of liberal application of gold in the illumination process, much of which has flaked off over time.

The triptych is not particularly well-preserved; the paint of the middle panel especially has flaked off around joints in the wood.

Even small flecks of paint that have flaked off spacecraft can be hazardous.

The rusty clots have flaked off; they lie in tiny brittle grains on the nap of the towel.

Environmental groups sued the agency in 2007, after a study found that some 20 tons of lead-based paint had flaked off the warships, known as the ghost fleet.

The woman, Cecilia Giménez, who is in her 80s, said on Spanish national television that she had tried to restore the fresco, which she called her favorite local representation of Jesus, because she was upset that parts of it had flaked off due to moisture on the church's walls.

According to the university's post, Ford believed that "bird excrements are known to have a corroding or macerating effect on many materials, a statement that most car owners can confirm", and the substance on Munch's painting seemed to lie on top of the paint and to have flaked off throughout the years.

Mold grew on the walls, and some of the stone facing had flaked off.