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

More procedural requirements mean more chances for a judge to flyspeck some aspect of rulemaking.

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2023

“Look, I’m not going to flyspeck this,” the president added.

From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2021

The level of funding required would be a flyspeck in the military budget, not an endless boondoggle.

From Washington Times • Apr. 9, 2018

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 Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)