speck

First, they begin as tiny little specks of dust, forming inside the clouds of gas around baby stars, which are known as protoplanetary discs.

I reason that it’s probably from the lack of sleep, or a speck of dirt that blew into my eye.

It was enough to make a person feel no more than a speck, a scrap of flotsam or jetsam tossing in the waves, to be cast willy-nilly into such an unimaginable expanse.

Some cried out against the baroness’s words, while others agreed with Lady Constance, for truly, the cake had been scrumptious, and there was hardly a speck of it left on anyone’s plate.

Once it started drizzling, Roz carefully washed herself from head to toe, and by the time the clouds passed, every speck of poison tide had rinsed off her body and trickled into the ocean.