Flake is an English word with synonyms like chip or form. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Flake in a sentence
Related words
Flake meaning
- A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
- A scale of a fish or similar animal
- A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
Synonyms of Flake
Using Flake
- The main meaning on this page is: A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything | A scale of a fish or similar animal | A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
- Useful related words include: chip, form, fragment, scrap.
- In the example corpus, flake often appears in combinations such as: jeff flake, flake and, flake graphite.
Context around Flake
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Flake
- In this selection, "flake" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, boot, quality, apart, graphite, industries and tools stand out and add context to how "flake" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include advisor for flake co dearnley and and texas flake to determine. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "flake" sits close to words such as airship, anal and annihilation, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with flake
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Here, you’d be charged for a flake. (8 words)
Flake graphite prices & spherical graphite prices were flat the past month. (11 words)
Equally, the price of “Garri” (cassava flake) has decreased minimally in the market. (13 words)
It's so easy to use, I achieved a perfect flick and was able to add to it as desired without messing up, taking it all off and restarting (If you know you know!) Didn't smudge, didn't flake and was easy to remove at the end of the night. (51 words)
Using models of how heat flows through granite, Mr. Guerin and his colleagues calculated that Boot Flake’s rock bridge was roughly 55 square feet in area, or about 6.8 percent of the flake’s total area. (38 words)
Vehicles clad in these nonmetallic colors “reflect less light than we’ve become accustomed to seeing over the past several flake-heavy decades, and so they assume a greater visual density than their flaked-out counterparts,” Weiner wrote. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
And then the mains – halibut which fell apart flake by flake and the venison loin.
Flake is the chief real estate advisor for Flake & Co. Dearnley is the company’s CEO and Thomas Schmidt is co-founder.
Using models of how heat flows through granite, Mr. Guerin and his colleagues calculated that Boot Flake’s rock bridge was roughly 55 square feet in area, or about 6.8 percent of the flake’s total area.
With infrared imaging, scientists have now essentially peered behind two of the largest flakes, Boot Flake and Texas Flake, to determine how well they’re connected to El Capitan.
A high-quality flake graphite product that closely resembles natural flake graphite can be made from steelmaking kish.
The early flake industries probably contributed to the development of the Middle Paleolithic flake tools of the Mousterian industry, which is associated with the remains of Neanderthal man.
E-Power Resources Inc.) ("E-Power" or the "Company") is pleased to report on the progress of exploration on the Company's flagship Tetepisca flake graphite property located in the North Shore region of Québec.
Flake graphite prices & spherical graphite prices were flat the past month.
Here, you’d be charged for a flake.
In the morning, the monarch unveiled a plaque in the largest cereal factory in Europe and the biggest Corn Flake factory in the world.
Not to mention, the formula doesn’t clump or flake either, so you don’t have to worry about getting raccoon eyes shortly after you apply the mascara.
Pour the hot oil over the red pepper flake mixture, and mix well with a spoon.
The deposit ranks as one of the largest-known and highest quality flake graphite deposits in the world.
Vehicles clad in these nonmetallic colors “reflect less light than we’ve become accustomed to seeing over the past several flake-heavy decades, and so they assume a greater visual density than their flaked-out counterparts,” Weiner wrote.
Ali Hood, director of conservation at the Shark Trust, told MailOnline: 'In some parts of the UK shark meat is traditionally sold under a few different names, such as Rock Salmon, Huss and Flake.
But Flake voted to give new powers to the National Security Agencyconduct warrantless surveillance on Americans.
But she ended up hewing closer to the path of Jeff Flake, a former Arizona Republican senator who stood against then-President Donald Trump and became a pariah in in his party.
Equally, the price of “Garri” (cassava flake) has decreased minimally in the market.
Fake Gold Flake cigarettes and other Illegally smuggled cigarettes worth more than Rupees 1 crore were seized by the police.
It's so easy to use, I achieved a perfect flick and was able to add to it as desired without messing up, taking it all off and restarting (If you know you know!) Didn't smudge, didn't flake and was easy to remove at the end of the night.
Common combinations with flake
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- jeff flake 33×
- flake and 16×
- flake graphite 11×
- and flake 7×
- flake of 7×
- for flake 4×
- flake has 4×
- flake r-ariz 4×
- flake who 4×
- to flake 4×