Sentence examples for speck from inspiring English sources

"Oh God!" he should have then cried if he'd had even a speck of foresight in that giant empty head of his.

The electoral map of Scotland had become a sea of yellow, with just a speck of blue in the south, red in the east and orange in the north.

Even in the evenings, a huge pizza smothered with gorgonzola and speck (smoky Tyrolean ham) and "un quarto di vino della casa" costs less than €15.

FROM a distance the Elgin platform looks like an insignificant speck against the featureless expanse of the North Sea.

FROM OUR CHINA CORRESPONDENT ONE speck of rat's shit", says a Chinese proverb, "ruins the entire pot of rice".

He and his kind will be carried away, cast out, "into nothingness, until no speck or smudge" remains.

Over two weeks they drifted east almost 400 miles, landing on Torishima, a barren volcanic speck whose only sustenance was brackish water lying in puddles and nesting seabirds.

That is why this speck of rock is rich.Backers of the minimum wage hope that it will be followed with other rules, such as caps on working hours.

Even one of the world's biggest ships is a speck in a vast, peaceful emptiness.

AS REVOLUTIONS go, that of Anguilla, a plucky speck of land in the Caribbean, was more comedy than drama.

The planet would appear as a tiny speck, with neither blue ocean nor swirling, white cloud visible.