flecked; flecking; flecks
2
: to color as if by sprinkling with flecks
his wit is flecked with sarcasm—
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Examples of fleck in a Sentence
Verb
She flecked the canvas with blue paint.
to achieve the desired effect, fleck the canvas with paint simply by flicking the brush close to the surface
Noun
a brown cloth with flecks of yellow
The police found flecks of blood on his clothes.
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Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
Image But the quality is dubious: smelly, cloudy and flecked with debris.
—Abu Bakr Bashir, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
Each light is attached to a green string to easily blend into your tree, and once the lights are turned on, the liquid inside each bulb bubbles to reveal floating flecks of gold glitter to make your tree shine.
—Kaitlin Gates, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2024
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Verb
Shilpa lovingly stroked cloth flecked with gold that clocked in at 380 euros a meter, and visualized the shawl that could be made from it.
—Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
Image But the quality is dubious: smelly, cloudy and flecked with debris.
—Abu Bakr Bashir, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
Noun
The song structures melt into goo; the lyrics pelt flecks of raw feeling.
—Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
Each light is attached to a green string to easily blend into your tree, and once the lights are turned on, the liquid inside each bulb bubbles to reveal floating flecks of gold glitter to make your tree shine.
—Kaitlin Gates, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Fleck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fleck. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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