| Word | Mote |
|---|---|
| Meaning | a tiny piece of something |
| Example 1 | A small mote of glass entered my foot, so tiny that I wasn’t able to pull it out without tweezers. |
| Example 2 | Feeling a mote of dirt in her eye, the woman rushed to the bathroom to wash the speck out. |
| Example 3 | A mote of sand in the girl’s shoe irritated her until she stopped to wipe it away. |
| Example 4 | Feeling anxious about the state of her home, the obsessive housewife scrubbed away every tiny mote of dust. |
| Example 5 | Wind blew each mote of sand up into the air and sent the particles flying across the shore. |
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