Sample Sentences for
mote
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    Outside, the sky had whited over with clouds, and shine spilled across the surfaces, sending motes before my eyes.  (source)
    motes = specks (tiny things)
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    I had the same room which Finny and I had shared during the summer, but across the hall, in the large suite where Leper Lepellier had dreamed his way through July and August amid sunshine and dust motes and windows through which the ivy had reached tentatively into the room, here Brinker Hadley had established his headquarters.  (source)
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    The sun had set; no dust motes to follow.†  (source)
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    I looked toward the door, motes of dust settling and spinning in the light streaming in from it.†  (source)
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    Objects move as the boys invisibly mote past them.†  (source)
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    And, waking, I beheld her there Sea-dreaming in the moted air, A siren lithe and debonair, With wristlets woven of scarlet weeds, And oblong lucent amber beads Of sea-kelp shining in her hair.†  (source)
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    Owls and bees, two-toned Ramblers, buzzards, cottontails, and motes of dust.†  (source)
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    The mote in his brother's eye, not the sin of his own household.†  (source)
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    I unlocked my office, stepped into the close-smelling, dust-moted air.†  (source)
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    She can see the dust motes they had kicked up together off the carpet.†  (source)
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    The smallest, most seemingly insignificant event is part of an intricate whole and to understand why one particular mote of dust falls in one particular path, and lands in one particular location, is to understand the will of Amaat.†  (source)
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    He claps a hand to his face but it's too late—she's away, spinning, biting her tail, dancing in the moted sunlight that spills through the window glass.†  (source)
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    Motes of straw dust hung suspended in the air.†  (source)
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