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    flake example sentences

    flake


    flaked


    flakes


    flaking


    1. And every flake seemed larger, and appeared like a magnificent flower, or beautiful star; it was splendid to look at!


    2. William dropped the flake of new-age plastic to the ground and looked around at his surroundings


    3. Frank is a bit of a flake


    4. The cart passing-point that had been selected for the ruse, had been so well camouflaged with the rock flake covered canvas that it had looked just like an extension of the rocky walls that lined the track


    5. Matthew noticed that there were some cigarettes in it and for reasons unknown to him slipped a packet of ten Gold Flake into his pocket


    6. When Kellogg rolled the tempered or softened wheat and let it dry, each grain of wheat emerged as a large thin flake


    7. ” He would always remember it, it was the snow flake that became the avalanche


    8. With a gloved finger, he touched the flake of material


    9. Don’t flake out on us; not today of all days


    10. They should accept vitamin enriched flake foods, frozen and definitely live foods

    11. and even the flavour of the ice-cream I had: rainbow with a Flake chocolate bar stuck into the top


    12. flake is the same, they're all identical


    13. “Patience,” he repeated, a flake of reasoning squirming its


    14. It helps the skin to flake off old skin and improve the skin's metabolism


    15. In some places it was more ice than flake, so densely packed it reminded me of the hard layer of ice in a freezer that needs defrosting


    16. Thence, with native audacity, but still with a reserve as characteristic, she flew into the midst of a group of mariners, the swarthy-cheeked wild men of the ocean, as the Indians were of the land; and they gazed wonderingly and admiringly at Pearl, as if a flake of the sea-foam had taken the shape of a little maid, and were gifted with a soul of the sea-fire, that flashes beneath the prow in the night-time


    17. A flake of rock split from the wall and fell


    18. Patrik Johansson and Zandra Bring at Vallmobacken’s Dairy in Alingsås are friends and mentors of Frantzén/Lindeberg, both when it comes to the making of butter and as producers of the restaurant’s salt, a traditionally made flake salt


    19. But with each defeated kite, hope grew in my heart, like snow collecting on a wall, one flake at a time


    20. "Tell me your story," he repeated, crushing a flake of ash on the neatly arranged desk with his index finger, flicking it into the trash can

    21. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting


    22. It was possible to imagine a thousand film ghosts, scared by gunshot whispers, soaring to flake the ceiling and vanish in the vents


    23. Choose a suitably sized bone or flake of bone and sharpen to a point


    24. These bars of gold and silver would be cut into round flakes and each flake stamped with a picture


    25. Like the kiss of a saint, it would endow the flake with power; the picture would give it a character and a curious, compelling soul


    1. under the kitchen window, the frame of which was as flaked and mildewed on the


    2. The young man managed two or three disjointed paces before he too crumpled and flaked, finally tripping over an uneven paving stone and falling chin first to the floor


    3. He had five little pots, she got hers with orange spiced flaked whitefish, while Althart the White took the black darter in purple lon shreds


    4. Mortar flaked and crumbled from his touch


    5. At least I thought it used to be lime green but the paint was wearing thin now, most of it flaked away


    6. Outside the waves of wind and rain became mixed with heavy flaked snow


    7. But flaked nuts are a welcome and pretty addition to fruit salads, stewed fruits, etc


    8. guy flaked out on the couch, a beer bottle in one hand, a huge reefer in the other, and a


    9. Dippa frowns in annoyance, as the pipe is dirty and rusty; a small circle of dirt and dry yellow flaked paint surrounds it from where it has been placed on the floor


    10. can of water-packed tuna, drained and flaked

    11. ‘’Here are a couple of cans of sardines and of flaked tuna for you


    12. She reflected as she flaked the fish for the pie that Herne was probably right and that magic didn’t necessarily make every task easier


    13. Never wash your hair while you are taking a bath; the water is dirty, teeming with bits of flaked skin, soap scum and other undesirable elements


    14. The surrounding shaft wall almost flaked off once it was pierced


    15. stir in the flaked coconut and sour cream


    16. Paint flaked off front doors and the brick facades were no longer their original red-brown but had turned almost black thanks to the soot permanently shrouding our city


    17. Tiny bits of dried blood flaked off the shiny steel


    18. A tiny crescent shaped sliver of skin flaked outward, and she marveled at it


    19. Kate took him around a side entrance and they entered a swinging security door marked in flaked gold leaf with the words Mirador Mansion


    20. Most of the mud had dried and flaked off, leaving her mostly naked and turning blue

    21. Top with flaked almonds


    22. Because this is the other thing: the Prophet Charlie has flaked (true to form), and Sewer Girl, when it was finally time to leave, was nowhere to be found


    23. “Then we have the many flaked salts that we believe gained popularity through a well-known TV show, but were created as early as the Viking days when the Vikings learned the method for creating salt in order to preserve meat and fish


    24. They created flaked salt next to fishing stations they had along the Bay of Biscay


    25. Half of one face had flaked off in the rains


    26. "Thank you," said His Lordship, "but where would you put it? Out in the weather it would soon be torn to shreds by wind, dampened by rain, flaked by hail


    27. "With forty years of glances and glares, it's a wonder the ice has not flaked from that mirror's backside


    28. Her small white hands lay at her sides, flaked with sparks


    29. Behind the last door a radio exploded, the ancient paint shuddered and flaked softly onto the worn carpet at their feet


    30. In the empty Earth settlement, the painted houses flaked and peeled

    31. ‘Thank you,’ said his Lordship, ‘but where would you put it? Out in the weather it would soon be torn to shreds by wind, dampened by rain, flaked by hail; no, no, perhaps it is best it burns quickly—’


    32. Of the architecture there remain only small pieces flaked off the columns


    1. The darkness was viscous, dripping slowly onto flakes of straw that lay rotting on


    2. The darkness was viscous, dripping slowly onto flakes of straw that lay rotting on the puddled floor


    3. From the passageway the digitally enhanced voice of Citizen Marat burst into life once more, corroding the moment of doubt into a thousand flakes of brittle rust


    4. While others slept he caught flakes


    5. Flakes of dull white paint catch in the breeze


    6. with huge flakes that you could almost hear plop when they hit the ground


    7. bowl of corn flakes and – I shudder to write it – a cup of


    8. One winter's day, when the flakes of snow were flying about, he spread the skirts of his blue coat, and caught the snow as it fell


    9. The exquisite paleness of it, frosted by the merest hint of freckles scattered across her chest like tiny flakes of gold


    10. flakes laid themselves, brought by the cold wind

    11. Instead of crackers use corn flakes, replace squash with zucchini


    12. Crunching down the freshly fallen snow along a path through an arch of trees, white layered branches hanging heavy as the flakes fell in abundance


    13. the Internet arrived and all kinds of flakes and crazies joined in


    14. He glided to their counter, white flakes dusting his hair and shoulders


    15. The bleak wind howled around the corners, the white flakes by millions


    16. scene! Nothing but snow as far as the eye could reach, and flakes still


    17. Time passed and the snow returned, gathering its strength to send heavy flakes scurrying around the slender trunk of the ash


    18. He glanced up, putting his foot down, dislodging the pile of white flakes that had built up on the carpet underneath his foot


    19. The contents were neatly packaged into a cardboard box the size of a packet of Corn Flakes


    20. Very little was to be found in the way of a shelter, and water was as scarce as snow flakes in the summer

    21. gold flakes in the Phoenix motif


    22. The next day the snow fell upon them in soft flakes and they pulled the cloaks tight around them


    23. Some of the flakes gather on the windowsill outside, piling at the corners


    24. 23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together, they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved


    25. Flurries of snow began to fall, the white flakes melting on the black


    26. The nut-mill proper flakes the nuts, it will not macerate them, and is useful for nuts only


    27. Add the tomatoes, sliced peppers, scallions, garlic, and red pepper flakes


    28. Add the shrimp, wine and parsley flakes


    29. white flakes were spinning lazily out of the darkness, only seeming


    30. swirling flakes as they danced in the beams of the big spotlights that

    31. flakes that looked a lot like snow were screaming by the windshield


    32. gray-white flakes and occasionally horrified as the wind drove the


    33. few fat flakes floated lazily down as they hefted the carts up into Ice


    34. When the polenta has thickened, turn off heat and stir in half of the grated soy mozzarella and all of the dried pepper flakes


    35. Remove from oven, top with bean sprouts and pepper flakes, slice and serve


    36. The snow was coming down in big fat flakes and in the semi-darkness she still could not see any sign of him; without further ado, she ran outside and away from the hut


    37. flakes off, uncovers white—


    38. But on his back was a heavy mountain of snow, cold and crushing, the flakes of a thousand yesterdays piled upon him


    39. Flakes spiraled down, small and sparse, as Trask drove up and down hills, around and past the many curves on his route home


    40. A good thing, because traveling westward was bringing an increase in snow—the flakes larger and falling more thickly

    41. ” Adara noticed Zayn’s eyes, the yellow flakes starting to appear


    42. Add the crushed garlic, chilli flakes and lamb


    43. When they called in to Bart’s to pick up his clothes, Hazel was waiting with another of her enormous Black-forest gateaux; layers of sticky chocolate cake and cream topped by flakes and glacé cherries, carefully packed into a cardboard box


    44. salmon flakes easily when tested with a fork


    45. And the altar seemed to stand in the heart of a living fire which pulsed and shimmered, dripping flakes of quivering golden flame on the black stones about it


    46. The snow had become lighter, the flakes were much finer, and this improved


    47. The first flakes of snow were starting to fall


    48. Bright white flakes were falling and making the dark earth seem even darker


    49. Brown the meat with the red pepper flakes


    50. could see her features becoming transparent, while the flakes of snow











































    1. “Oh, really?” she said, flaking off the first bite with her fork


    2. Despite years of neglect made visible by thin, almost transparent patches of rust and jaggedly flaking automotive paint, the front wing of the little Austin Metro barely flexed under heel


    3. but wasting now in flaking, chill wind peels


    4. When the mortuary technician found him on his knees in the mortuary’s ante-room, he tried to help, making a sustained but weary effort to persuade Billy to sit down and have a cup of tea, assuming that he was related to the girl on the trolley, but there were no handles by which he could get a hold of the flaking singer


    5. Ted can feel the hard walls of his arteries flexing in his chest, their brittle inner surfaces flaking and cracking under the pressure, under the wild torrent of liquid being forced through them by the flood of adrenalin in his system


    6. Far more alive than the flaking yellow fingers crawling with black, pulsating veins


    7. The single hotel offered rooms with doors of nailed planks, cement floors, platforms of raw wood covered over with thin, flattened foam rubber as beds, a single, threadbare sheet, one frayed towel, no pillows, a bare bulb hanging from a spider web decorated wire, no window, no fan and walls partially covered in flaking, stained paint


    8. Or, had he serendipitously been made aware of the uncertain utility of a broken branch that offered a sometime protection, before he had learned of the utility of a stone to crack tough shells? Had he, in his industry to feed himself, used his hammer-stone too diligently, accidentally flaking off an edge that revealed the sharpness that he had been warned away from, among the many choices of stones to be found lying in certain places close to where water was to be found? Had he become aware of the danger to himself in the continued use of that broken stone when the flesh of his finger came into contact with that sharp edge? Had he now thrown it in the forlorn hope that this suddenly sharp edge would somehow slash into this enemy of his existence?


    9. I picked up another which she'd just placed on the ground (a small metal disk) and brushed away the flaking paint


    10. Later on in the afternoon I saw Julie in Piccadilly and she looked as if she was flaking out, so I invited her for a coffee

    11. Her eyes gaze at the flaking white ceiling


    12. I was worried about flaking over her upholstery, but there were no plastic covers to hand as far as I could see


    13. flaking out and skirting her duties to the company


    14. The bark was dry and flaking


    15. He stood below the overhead grate, looking up, and he mustered the will to start the short climb up, the heavily rusted and flaking rungs of the ladder chafing even his calloused palms


    16. There was a small flatscreen TV sitting on a dresser covered in flaking paint


    17. was not the time for an associate to start flaking on him and, so resolved to nip this in the bud before it became an issue, he walked toward her


    18. part of the beach, two old boats with flaking paint helping to


    19. All around were green wooden benches, their paint faded and flaking, where two or three elderly effendis were napping in the warmth of the sun, the peace and the gurgling of the running water


    20. Its bottom was lined in old concrete that had once been painted white, but the paint was chipped and flaking off—in some areas, the paint flecks were bigger than a man’s arm

    21. & my Lawless Doctrine is a smouldering stockpile of flaking embers -


    22. is a smouldering stockpile of flaking embers -


    23. ) Down through flaking tin ceilings, through plaster and lath; unimpeded, he should have reached all the way down to the cathected utility lines and subway tunnels


    24. Douglas held the flaking warm ashes in the palm of his hand


    25. So! He was to come at three tomorrow afternoon, did he understand? That would give them time to drive out through the gray snows of land where the flaking lava ash had fallen to make a great dusty winter for mile after mile, and arrive at the volcano as the sun was setting


    26. Munigant" initialed in ancient, flaking gold on a glass plate outside the building


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    Synonyms for "flake"

    bit chip flake fleck scrap eccentric eccentric person geek oddball snowflake flake off peel peel off scale shed sliver drop fragment shaving pellicle

    "flake" definitions

    a crystal of snow


    a person with an unusual or odd personality


    a small fragment of something broken off from the whole


    form into flakes


    cover with flakes or as if with flakes


    come off in flakes or thin small pieces