speck

Example Sentences

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I’m but a speck of matter in the cosmos.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

"If there's a speck of dust in your eye, you just get rid of it, right?"

From BBC • Dec. 20, 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

Tim Skipper was just a redshirt freshman then, a speck of a middle linebacker at 5 feet 6.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025

They screamed like the roll of thunder up and away into the sky until they were nothing but a speck among the clouds.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova