speck

Example Sentences

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We took that little bitty speck of music and it’s global now.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 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

"But it was a speck too much, I mean it's Brad Pitt."

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2025

Hudson was born in Hancock, Maine, a speck on the map of 2,500 people best known as the home of Wild Ray’s “Chainsaw Sawyer Artist Live Show.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2025

I sought the orchard, driven to its shelter by the wind, which all day had blown strong and full from the south, without, however, bringing a speck of rain.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë