Michelle Huneven

For many years now, my source for salvific chicken soup has been the Sanamluang Cafe on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Kingsley Drive: crystalline broth, flecks of fried garlic, and a moist, steamed bird nesting on thick rice noodles and bean sprouts has stanched many a misery.

American Novelist

Michael Dirda

On any given day, I'm likely to be working at home, hunched over this keyboard, typing Great Thoughts and Beautiful Sentences - or so they seem at the time, like those beautifully flecked and iridescent stones one finds at the seashore that gradually dry into dull gray pebbles.

American Critic

Monica Hesse

Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often, can teach us to appreciate the strange wonder of our existence.

American Writer

Kimberly Guilfoyle

Bella is my little dog. She's an imperial Shih Tzu. She's a little cotton ball with flecks of gold. She's super, super cute, and she eats like she's a Rottweiler.

Use 'fleck' to describe tiny but noticeable details in objects or surfaces that might reflect light or color.

Subtle Detail

Fleck can imply a texture on a surface, suggesting not just color but also a sense of feel.

Textural Description

Describing something as having flecks can give the impression that it is unique or specially designed.

Conveys Uniqueness

Use 'flecked' to show a subtle change or variation in appearance that's not overwhelming.

Subtle Transformation

Flecked can be used to add depth to descriptions, making them more vivid and interesting.

Enhancing Descriptions

When describing people, 'flecked' can hint at aging by mentioning colors associated with older age.

Indicating Age

 obviously and transmits a picture up to all of the screens that we had in front of us. So it's quite a strange environment. Yeah. You know, you're sat in a dark room, ships bumping around a bit like this and everyone's just staring at the screen and for hours you see nothing, just little flecks just drifting through and then all of a sudden you come

Deep Sea Anglerfish Sex...

 or even sifting out flecks of gold from river sand. But not all mixtures are so easy to unravel. In some of those cases, we can exploit the differences between physical properties within a mixture, like particle size, density, or boiling point to extract what's required.

How do we separate the...

 Cheeto paint is a very simple way to paint with Cheetos. I discovered that Cheetos are good, expressive material. And with these Cheetos, I began to think, "What can I make with these Cheetos?" And so, I began to crinkle up potato chip flecks, and also pretzels.

John Maeda: Designing...

 I can see the tiny flecks of sparkle in the granite. I bet that every person in this room is imagining something a little different, but filled with all sorts of distinct details about the surroundings, about the circumstances. Audio is incredible that way.

The Relationship Between...

 abdomen expanded to the size of a grape the small dark flecks are the hard plates which protect the body of a normal-sized and it's the membrane between them that is stretched these bloated individuals are almost totally

David Attenborough Eats...

 and then drew an exclamation point because he had realized that a tiny fleck in Andromeda previously thought to be a nova could not possibly be a nova, given its blinking pattern across these different photographs.

Humanity's Search for...

 spat straight at the camera I think there are a few flecks of venom just on the outside of the lens lens hood here this gentle pressure doesn't hurt the snake but it will help me show you how

Rinkhal Snake Plays Dead...

 the perfect site for building what was at the time the largest concrete structure in the world the hoover dam i've come here to meet john fleck a professor of water policy at the

The Water Crisis PIPE...

 Every prisoner I've interviewed has said there are three flecks of light in the darkness of phone calls, letters and visits from family.

The secret US prisons...

 contained tiny flecks of gold just what one might expect from a stone that had been through a fire in a temple lined with gold