flyspeck
Example Sentences
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The 17-year-old best friends are neighbors in a flyspeck California town in the Mojave Desert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
“Look, I’m not going to flyspeck this,” the president added.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2021
But the press’s team used several printers to speed along reprints, and Krissoff says he’s proud that “a flyspeck university press in West Virginia can publish at the highest level.”
From Slate ● May 17, 2021
This was Grandview Speedway, a rudimentary third-of-a-mile high-banked dirt track nestled in the flyspeck town of Bechtelsville, Pa., amid rolling farmland 50 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2019
But to me his ambitions seemed futile, and the whole of Long Island less important than a flyspeck on the map of the world.
From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
