Sentence examples for on a speck from inspiring English sources
TSHIKOTA, South Africa — When she moved from a cramped room in a boardinghouse to her very own bungalow on a speck of land here last year, Jeanette Munyai became one of the millions of South Africans given a decent home by an ambitious government program inaugurated at the end of apartheid.
The camera closed in on a speck on the snowfield.
I watched jets land on a speck of America floating in a black sea.
When the three Moffitt children were growing up, they lived on a speck of an island, accessible only by boat, which became their own private playground after dark.
But as our mothers read us the story of Horton, the kindly pachyderm who tries to protect the infinitesimal creatures on a speck of dust, few of us knew that the author intended the tale not only as a lesson about being nice in general but also as a plea for understanding and compassion for the defeated Japanese people.
Standing on the banks of the Mississippi amid the carefully scattered wreckage, not a severed body part in view, he zeroes in on a speck of evidence that would have led straight to the killer if the credited screenwriters, Bill Marsilii and Terry Rossio, hadn't decided to kink up their terrorism plot with a beautiful dead woman and some nutty speculative fiction.
Any day now, nine heavily laden trucks will pull out of a speck on the map called Rock Tavern, N.Y., and set out on the 10-hour journey to Washington.
I returned the following year, around Thanksgiving, determined to get a bird for a holiday supper, and this time saw one: a speck on the horizon, running away at an impressive speed.
Among the evidence the museum relied on was a speck of soil lodged in a pendant that matched a site known to have been illegally excavated.
The wide-angle ContourHD reduced me to a speck on the horizon when riding a safe distance from the car.
The next year, determined to avoid the same fate, he and a three-man crew — Gerald Pitzl, Jean-Luc Bombardier and Walter Pederson — started farther north, beginning their trek on March 7, at a speck on the Canadian map called Ward Hunt Island, 474 miles from the pole.
