flake off in a sentence
Examples
- Pigments six centuries old are flaking off.
- This causes many modern surviving Musicmasters from this period to suffer from paint flaking off the body.
- Paint is flaking off; baskets are crumbling.
- "And no matter where it appears, it flakes off on people's furniture and carpet, " she laments.
- During freezing weather this moisture freezes and expands, causing pieces of the brick facing to flake off.
- They scraped and flaked off the malachite and then smelted it in a crucible in a campfire.
- Stone flakes off, foundations settle unevenly.
- Green paint flakes off the walls.
- They are liable to flake off.
- If you use antiques or older pieces of furniture, be wary of lead paint that could flake off.