Words similar to flakes

Example sentences for: flakes

How can you use “flakes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The men may be laying out dozens of cod to dry on what are known as flakes, the same trestled wooden racks still used in fishing villages all down the coast.
Hurt's face is so deeply lined that he now resembles Boris Karloff's mummy--not flesh and blood but flakes and embalming fluid.
The exterior may be painted in two tones, a lacquer mixed with iridescent flakes, or have a pearl finish.
That voice, which never had much timbre, has grown so raspy that you can practically see the flakes of his vocal cords swirling around his head like dandruff.
Under snow, its classical shapes--domes and pediments, octagons and pyramids--are linked in a geometry that remains generally pure, thanks to the speed with which government shuts down at the first sight of falling flakes."