Definition of Mote

a tiny piece of something

Examples of Mote in a sentence

A small mote of glass entered my foot, so tiny that I wasn’t able to pull it out without tweezers.  🔊

Feeling a mote of dirt in her eye, the woman rushed to the bathroom to wash the speck out.  🔊

A mote of sand in the girl’s shoe irritated her until she stopped to wipe it away.  🔊

Feeling anxious about the state of her home, the obsessive housewife scrubbed away every tiny mote of dust.  🔊

Wind blew each mote of sand up into the air and sent the particles flying across the shore.  🔊

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