Synonyms for fleck

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : flek

Phonetic Transcription : flɛk

Top 10 synonyms for fleck

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Définition of fleck

Origin : late 14c., probably from Old Norse flekka "to spot," from Proto-Germanic *flekk- (cf. Middle Dutch vlecke, Old High German flec, German Fleck), from PIE *pleik- "to tear" (see flay). Related: Flecked; flecking.

noun spot, pinpoint mark
verb mark with spots

Example sentences :

Any scintilla or fleck of truth I can pick off from a revolutionary, I take but I will not take him.
Extract from : « The Ghost in the White House » by Gerald Stanley Lee

There was not a fleck of cloud on all the sky, nor of mist on all the hills.
Extract from : « The Orphans of Glen Elder » by Margaret Murray Robertson

Among all this loveliness was glimpsed by Arethusa a fleck of green.
Extract from : « The Heart of Arethusa » by Francis Barton Fox

In the days that followed she thought of him as she saw him last, a minute fleck on the plain.
Extract from : « The Eagle's Heart » by Hamlin Garland

He knocked out the pipe, crushed a fleck of burning tobacco with his boot.
Extract from : « Empire » by Clifford Donald Simak

Nor has every fleck of color gone from the face of the out-of-doors.
Extract from : « Wild Life Near Home » by Dallas Lore Sharp

Not even a fleck of foam broke the glassy surface of the swirling current.
Extract from : « The Inca Emerald » by Samuel Scoville

On the crest of a wave she caught a fleck of white that was not foam.
Extract from : « Witches Cove » by Roy J. Snell

She could have cried at a fleck in the miserable glass which spoiled her view.
Extract from : « The Duke of Stockbridge » by Edward Bellamy

He picked up one and blew a fleck of dust from it carefully.
Extract from : « Bruce of the Circle A » by Harold Titus

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