Sentence examples for is but a small speck from inspiring English sources

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Hong Kong is but a small speck on China's southern coast.

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He photographed rural scenes, wide views of towns, pictures you have to delve into to find the subject, which is often a small speck of detail somewhere in the frame.

In effect, what we see is a small speck, only it is spread out across the entire sky, and we are inside it!

And so, even though it is touted as being the world's third largest polluter, in reality, it is a small speck in the polluted atmosphere.

First, he said, came Nicolaus Copernicus, who showed that the earth was but a small, sun-orbiting speck amid an inconceivable vastness.

First, he said, came Nicolaus Copernicus, who showed that the Earth was but a small, sun-orbiting speck amid an inconceivable vastness.

It follows that if we could see objects whose light was sent 15 billion light years ago, all we would see would be a small speck of matter surrounded by empty space.

The overall ESR sensitivity of the probe was demonstrated for a small speck of 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl radical (DPPH) positioned in the gasket of the SAC, using water as the pressure-transmitting medium.

In the lower right, among the outer diffuse rings that encircle Saturn, will be a small speck of blue light with all of us on it.

It's a small speck of brown moving across a seemingly endless valley of snow.

Big Bang theory posits that the entire universe at its inception was but a minuscule speck.

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