Sentence examples for minuscule speck from inspiring English sources
To guess the cover of James Hilton's "Good-bye, Mr. Chips" from a minuscule speck of brown requires some serious book (cover) learnin'.
I would extend this assertion to most of the internet (although, of course, there are corners of this world wide web where the creepy line is but a minuscule speck in the rearview mirror).
Big Bang theory posits that the entire universe at its inception was but a minuscule speck.
Isolating the first minuscule specks of radium, Marie Curie, the greatest of the pioneers (1 curie = 37 gigabecquerels), marveled that its eerie blue glow "looked like faint, fairy lights".
Even minuscule specks of debris can cause serious damage to spacecraft and satellites because of the immense speeds at which they travel.
"I'd sleep a lot better if this thing had a plywood lid," Opton-Himmel mutters as he rinses his hands in the upweller and watches the minuscule specks settle to the bottom.
Their apartment looks down, way down, onto Central Park, where "moving umbrella specks" trail "minuscule Akitas along miniature bridle paths".
But even as he struggled pleasurably over each apple he realized that he was dreaming of the fly, the impossible fly that, as it turned out, was visible only as a speck on the minuscule stem, though it was perfect in every detail when viewed through the glass.
Its eggs are practically indistinguishable from specks of dust; its larvae appear as minuscule white wrigglers.
Physically, the genome is minuscule -- two copies of it are packed into the nucleus of every ordinary human cell, each one of which is about a fifth the size of the smallest speck of dust the eye can see.
