flake

Example Sentences

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Its steel surface—unlike a coating that can flake off—is hardened through a process called nitriding.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

They found that flake cereals with fruit “played more into people’s need for sensory pleasure,” Food Business News reported.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2025

He said digs at the site have turned up about 70 items ranging from flake stones to a rare example of an early ground stone.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 2, 2024

They then stamped the graphene flake onto an hBN flake and placed a second hBN flake over the graphene structure.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024

I use my fingernail to flake off some dirt.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed