speck

Example Sentences

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Sitting at the workbench in front of a small jet of flame, Vittorio’s son, Davide, shaped a speck of glass into a delicate snail to add to the store’s collection of glass flora and fauna.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

Surely, there has got to be some speck of humanity here, some microcosmic pocket of life detectable amid her robotic demeanor and Ratner’s styleless direction.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026

A speck of an island with a land area of 171 square miles, Curacao is 40 miles north of Venezuela.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

The painter adds, as grace notes, eight daubs of red, two no larger than a speck, to the prevailing gray.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

I noticed there was a little brown speck marking the white part of her right eye.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce