What is "flakes"

Usage examples of "flakes".

With a section of antler beam, she quickly knapped off a new edge, the long flakes driven off by her expert hand.

Maybe the creatures, the flakes, only have active life during the perihelion period, when the atmosphere expands and enriches.

Christy, the sub-Charon point, where the topography was at its most complex and interesting, and where the greatest density of flakes was to be found.

It was as if, she thought, the flakes had gathered here, yearning for the huge, inaccessible moon above them.

Lvov had left her desk there, to monitor the flakes, and the image the desk transmitted, displayed in the corner of her faceplate, showed a spark, crossing the sky.

Infant flakes soared and sailed, with webs and nets of their silk-analogue hauling at the rising air.

Already, Lvov saw, some of the baby flakes had hurtled more than a planetary diameter from the surface, towards the moon.

The flakes clung to her eyelids and already she could feel the down on her upper lip becoming stiff with cold.

I must already have the answers from Lipitero and the flakes she has allowed me to read.

Doing so allowed him more control as he snapped long thin flakes from the point.

Singing Wolf had taken his baton, striking flakes off the sinew-clogged biface he was using to butcher the mammoth.

Woman whipped the thick flakes around, a sheet of snow obscuring the plain below.

Around the spots where the shelters had been, rings of brown from discarded scraps and chipped stone flakes remained.

Folsom Man always hollowed the face of his lance points by cutting out channel flakes, and why he took the added trouble of making them with ears protruding from the base.

Even as they were being buried, and Doc Hodder was speaking of how they would be eternally united in the Kingdom of the Lord, and those sins they might have committed in the name of love forgiven, Maeve looked up at the gray heavens and saw the first flakes of snow spiraling down.