Sentence examples for in flakes from inspiring English sources

The principal minerals in slate are mica (in small, irregular scales), chlorite (in flakes), and quartz (in lens-shaped grains).

It is "the partially frozen vapor of the atmosphere falling in flakes," or so the Oxford English Dictionary says.

NOTE: edible gold leaf is available at bake-supply shops in flakes or sheets, which can be easily crumbled.

Seeing his skin drop off in flakes and handing over a fiver to sustain him were actions that called for description, not explanation.

And, in a twist somehow prescient of Kahlo's colourful, tragic life, a packet of powdered gold carried by another passenger exploded, showering her broken body in flakes of the precious metal.

Rain regularly dripped in through the roof of the old cell blocks, causing lead-based paint and plaster containing asbestos to drop in flakes and chunks onto the floor.

Called Regal Red – which for buyers in the US will add $3,000 to the car's bottom line – this shiraz-toned paint boasts stirred-in flakes of actual 24-carat gold.

The relationship of the in-flake-pore size and the calcinations temperature is proposed here.

"This may be an early experiment in flaking stone that really doesn't have any longevity," Toth said.

Nearby is another building with an irrelevant sign, this one in flaking gold on a dirty window — "holcomb bank".

While some projectile points from these sites suggest Paleo-Indian varieties, the majority are stemmed or notched and differ in flaking technique from contemporary western Paleo-Indian specimens.