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Usage examples of "flake off".
Squinting down his flat nose, he placed the antler tip against the edge of the tool and pressed, snapping a long pressure flake off the stone.
By the time you pressure flake off enough of the underside to shape a straight point, there isn't much left.
She could make a rough hand-axe from a nodule of flint or flake off a sharp-edged piece to use as a knife or scraper so well even Droog was impressed.
When he woke up, the pure oxygen of the cabin's atmosphere had made his nose irritable and runny, and his skin was starting to flake off, bits of it floating around him in the gentle breezes.
Hunting people usually didn't care how it looked if it would flake off and form a sharp edge.
She suffered from something mysterious which her father called Finger Rot, which made the skin flake off her hands.
The troops needed time to flake off and be ready for whatever followed, so they napped as they wished and sucked paste meals in their couches.
I want a paint that can be made to flake off completely, instantly, and without residue.
His body one great slab o' rock that flake off side o' tired old mountain an' de arms hang from dat like twisty cypress.
Once healing had concluded beneath, the artificial epidermis would dry, crack, and flake off, leaving the restored flesh exposed.
And if you listened, as the big iron trains rolled by, you could hear the rust flake off the old men's bones and snow through their bloodstreams to shimmer for a moment in their dying gaze as they settled for long hours between sentences and tried to recall the subject they had started on at noon and might finish off at midnight, when the two brothers, bickering, shut up shop and went away sniveling to their bachelor beds.
He slid his hand into the handle of the unglazed mug Ahdio set before him, watched a wrinkle or two flake off, and made a snarly noise.