FLAKE in a Sentence

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34 example sentences for FLAKE, such as:

1. The paint's beginning to flake off.
2. Remove the skin and flake the flesh.
3. Do you remember a blue case that was on flake of storage?
4. The whole air suddenly crystallized into large damp flakes.
5. The normally snowy January was spring like, without a flake to be seen.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLAKE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flake
 n.  flat thin piece or layer; chip; small piece; small crystalline bit of snow
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  The flake of snow grew larger and larger; and at last it was like a young lady, dressed in the finest white gauze, made of a million little flakes like stars.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
2  But I know that as I worked at it, every flake and film of colour seemed to me to reveal my secret.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
3  He laughed and applied himself hungrily to the cold corn pone and cold turnip greens on which congealed grease was thick in white flakes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  Behind walls of corded wood in back yards their sawbucks stood in depressions scattered with canary-yellow flakes of sawdust.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  The whole air suddenly crystallized into large damp flakes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  In a swirl of flakes which scratched at their eyes like a maniac darkness, he unbuckled the harness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  The moon-tipped flakes kicked up by the horses settled over the revelers and dripped down their necks, but they laughed, yelped, beat their leather mittens against their chests.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  Big white flakes were whirling over everything and disappearing in the red grass.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
9  There were three or four inches of fresh snow on the ground, and the flakes were falling thick and fast.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
10  They compared her to flakes of snow; as pure, as white, as brilliant, and as liable to melt in the fierce heats of summer, or congeal in the frosts of winter.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
11  One winter's day, when the flakes of snow were flying about, he spread the skirts of his blue coat, and caught the snow as it fell.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
12  The flakes ran along the ground, and the nearer they came the larger they grew.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
13  The flakes of snow covered her long fair hair, which fell in beautiful curls around her neck; but of that, of course, she never once now thought.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL
14  It was the middle of winter, when the broad flakes of snow were falling around, that the queen of a country many thousand miles off sat working at her window.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In SNOWDROP
15  As he struck the wall, pieces of stucco similar to that used in the ground work of arabesques broke off, and fell to the ground in flakes, exposing a large white stone.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
Example Sentence:
1  The paint's beginning to flake off.
2  I think I'm going to flake out; I'd better sit down.
3  Remove the skin and flake the flesh.
4  The normally snowy January was spring like, without a flake to be seen.
5  Do you remember a blue case that was on flake of storage?