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.

  • 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.

  • Left it after chipping ice flakes for their drinks

  • 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."

  • Eventually, the store ceased to carry "lines" of goods at all, instead selling mostly private-label versions of a few staples (corn flakes, olive oil) and more exotic goods such as British-style crumpets and carbonated water blended with elderflowers.


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