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

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

From Washington Times • Apr. 9, 2018

“I kept to the Lowcountry,” he writes, “the Black Belt, the Delta, the backwoods, the flyspeck towns.”

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2015

This affair to-night is a mere flyspeck to what’s coming along in a week.”

From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Chapman, Allen