How to Use speck in a Sentence

speck

noun

• Soon the balloon was only a speck in the sky.
• There was not a speck of dust anywhere.
• She writes without a speck of humor.
• That’s the speck of hope in the dumpster fire that was 2022.
  — Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• But these are but specks of sand in the desert of gateways.
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
• Those days are a speck in the rearview mirror of pro sports.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 29 July 2023
• His slight frame was but a speck in the vastness, the dogs at his feet.
  — Miriam Jordan, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
• There’s some mozz in there, a few specks of chicken, and chile who?
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 14 Oct. 2023
• Her couch was soaked in blood, and specks of blood dotted the apartment's linoleum floor.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• Even a tiny speck of remaining foil can cause a spark that leads to a fire.
  — Kelsey Ogletree, Southern Living, 27 July 2023
• There comes a time when a speck of truth-telling is demanded.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 Jan. 2022
• Each crystal just needs a starting point, such as a grain of pollen or a speck of beeswax.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2022
• Speck by speck, the face of each man emerged, almost lifesize on the canvas.
  — Maggie Donahue, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2022
• The scale of the park soon engulfed them, and the woman’s sundress became a red speck on the landscape.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
• Every outfit looks twice as good when there isn't a speck of lint in sight.
  — Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 13 Oct. 2022
• The polar bear was just a faraway speck in a frozen white expanse.
  — Nell Lewis, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
• On the controller, Herring showed me thermal footage of the team: each man a small black speck in the long gray tree line.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• Even the smallest speck—a one-thousandth of a gram, hidden to the human eye—could kill.
  — Time, 24 July 2023
• Without trees, my sense of distance crumples, and soon, the rental car has shrunk to a blue speck.
  — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
• The scene almost looks like an abstract painting, heavy on the green but for the speck of a man moving among the leaves.
  — Star Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
• Black specks covered every surface-—midges that had flown in before the war and died.
  — Vadim Smyslov, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024
• Lose yourself in the vastness of the Earth, and feel like you’re but a speck among the mass of humanity.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2022
• Even a speck of dust can ruin the painstaking process for producing the chips.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
• There is not a speck of refuse, not a piece of paper, not a thrown away plastic bottle.
  — Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN, 13 Apr. 2021
• Leonard will look like a round, hazy speck in the sky with its tail pointing straight up, Joe Rao reports for Space.com.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2021
• The next, a buff-colored speck soared over the northern tree line and everything changed.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2021
• The specks blazed with light and shot away from the sun, accelerating.
  — Karl Schroeder, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2024
• Alderney is a speck off the coast of France, three and a half miles long and a mile and a half wide, with a population of around 2,000.
  — Rebecca Panovka, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• Sometime by the end of this decade, one of those specks will tower above the rest, visible even miles away.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
• There’s not a speck of iceberg lettuce or a sticky Heinz bottle (dating back to who knows when) in sight.
  — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024