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flake
noun as in scale, peel
Example Sentences
All around me were crumbling walls that revealed their history in layers, like rings on a tree: from grey stone, to copper colored brick, to cement, to the green and white flaking paint.
I returned with golden oil, salt like snow flakes and a warm sourdough loaf to join Maria José’s swish tomato.
The company's founder, Will Keith Kellogg, is widely considered to be the inventor of corn flakes.
They found that flake cereals with fruit “played more into people’s need for sensory pleasure,” Food Business News reported.
It’s totally understandable to feel angry, hurt or embarrassed when someone flakes on you, and you might want to write that person out of your life entirely.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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