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• He removed the speck of dust with a flick of his finger.From the entry flick
• I've been panning for gold for two years, and this tiny speck is all I have to show for it.From the entry have something to show for something
• Do you ever get the feeling that you are but an infinitesimal speck, swallowed by the vastness of the universe and beyond?From the entry infinitesimal
• Just one speck of mud on my shorts and I freak!"2015, Paul Shaw, Captain Cat and The Umbrella Kid: In Fear Can Be Fatal & The Aunt From The Blood Lagoon, →ISBN. From the entry automysophobia
• Speck noted that “the biggest risks that people faced were coming from the built environment”.2015 April, Tommy Connor, David Joannides, Claire Yang, “Buford Highway”, in ScholarBlogs, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2024. From the entry laner
• The orbot was a speck, a clot, a ball, a toy.1992, Gardner Dozois, Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction Of Gardner Dozois, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry grav
• The introduction of a high metallic oxide may produce lustrous specks known as an oilspot glaze.1968, Thomas G. Supensky, Ceramic Art in the School Program, Worcester, Mass.: Davis Publications, →LCCN, page 84. From the entry oilspot
• There is no limitation on sound burls, birdeyes or twig specks.1943, Allocations & Priorities Guide, number 19, page 227. From the entry birdeye
• The moon would be a speck the size of a small pea, thirty inches from the earth.1920, H. G. Wells, “The Earth in Space and Time”, in The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, New York: The…. From the entry respectively
• I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 21. From the entry flair
• This absurdly tight skirt clearly shows too much bulge (along with hip bones, tummy, specks of dust etc).2020 November 11, “What’s it like to be a post-orchiectomy non-op trans woman”, in elilla & friends’ very occasional blog thing, archived…. From the entry bulge
• One morning, I took the ferry to Cheung Chau, a speck of land southwest of Hong Kong Island.2019 November 19, Sebastian Modak, “We Put Hong Kong on the 52 Places to Go List. Things Got Complicated.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry Cheung Chau
• Gravity does not move through matter in waves, nor is it composed of tiny specks of matterlike photons.2004, Joseph Heller, William A Henkin, Bodywise: an introduction to Hellerwork for regaining flexibility and well-being. From the entry matterlike
• In 'The Vertical Ladder," a hapless adolescent is flypapered fast in perpetuity, a mean little speck, on the mast of implacability.1996, Gilbert Alter-Gilbert, Life and Limb: Selected Tales of Peril, Predicament, and Dire Distress, page 20. From the entry flypaper
• Just the tiniest speck of spellfire pushed into his palm.1995, Lucy Sussex, Judith Raphael Buckrich, She's fantastical, page 191. From the entry spellfire
• There was not a speck of dirt on them left.a. 1920, Opal Stanley Whiteley, The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart, Atlantic Monthly Press (1920), pages 58–59. From the entry broom
• Bones put the tiny crimson speck between his slides, blobbed a drop of oil on top, and focused the microscope.1917, Edgar Wallace, chapter 6, in The Keepers of the King's Peace. From the entry blob
• The buttery speck from La Quercia is aged up to 10 months, about twice as long as most speck, and then cold-smoked with applewood.2007 March 11, Oliver Schwaner-Albright, “Race for the Cured”, in New York Times. From the entry applewood
• The minges and noseeums had found her now, so many of them buzzing around her head that her vision seemed to dance with black specks.1999, Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. From the entry minge
• Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?1995, New American Standard Bible: Matthew 7, 3 - 5. From the entry log
• Before becoming physically concentrated within streams, specks of gold-silver alloy are disseminated within a hostrock which may be of any rock type.1995, Brian J. Skinner, Michael M. Kimberley, Stephen C. Porter, The Dynamic Earth, Casebook: An Introduction to Physical Geology, page 259. From the entry hostrock
• Six years earlier these two men—among the few interested in that distant speck of light—had detected methane and nitrogen on Triton's surface.1990 August, Rick Gore, “Neptune: Voyager's Last Picture Show”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 37. From the entry triton
• She turned off the bed-head light in this tiny, low-ceiled rolling home of hers, raised the curtain and watched the specks of light streak by.1940, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXIII, in Bethel Merriday, London: Jonathan Cape, page 364. From the entry bedhead
• With apparent slowness the star-like remnants of the Behemoth came to earth, descending and darkening one by one, until the last bright speck had disappeared.1908, Raymond McDonald, The Mad Scientist: A Tale of the Future, Cochrane Publishing Company, page 242. From the entry mad scientist
• The doctor suspected that the whitish speck of skin that Gillian had found next to her clitoris was lichen sclerosus, a skin condition that is usually benign.2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times. From the entry lichen sclerosus
• But any question over the value of all their prejump preparations disappears when those little black specks begin to fall away from the plane one by one.2008, Walt Mueller, Youth Culture 101. From the entry prejump
• She had the purest horror of invalid behavior, and from her husband and sons to the chancest contacts, no one ever saw a speck of it from her.2007, Anne Mendelson, Stand Facing the Stove. From the entry chancest
• Or how can you say to your brother, "Let me take the speck out of your eye," and behold, the log is in your own eye?1995, New American Standard Bible: Matthew 7, 3 - 5. From the entry log
• On this sad occasion the speck of mud on her footglove was brought to her attention at a party by the glance of a male guest.1947 March 17, Noel F. Busch, “Tokyo Geisha”, in LIFE, page 68. From the entry footglove
• For minutes he stood staring down at the engine, fixing in his mind every misscrewed nut and hammered bolt end, every sloppy connection and speck of rust.1916, Clinton Holland Stagg, High Speed, page 80. From the entry misscrew

Meaning of speck

1. noun A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.
2. noun A very small amount; a particle; a whit.
3. noun A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.

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How do you use speck in a sentence?

Speck is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He has not a speck of money.”

What is a short sentence with speck?

“a tiny speck of soot”

What does speck mean?

Speck means a tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.