MOTE


Meaning of MOTE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

motes of dust/dust motes literary (= small pieces of dust )

Glittering motes of dust hung in the sunlight.

motes of dust/dust motes literary (= small pieces of dust )

Glittering motes of dust hung in the sunlight.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Beauty was communication, each mote of light shaded with one nuance of meaning and each meaning had a colour.

Booth agreed that there was a mote in the eye of ministerial beholders preventing them reading the timetable properly.

But this has led anthropologists to exaggerate the motes of racial difference and to ignore the beams of similarity.

I completed tidying the loft, sneezing a few times as the golden space filled with motes of shining dust.

It is hardly necessary to dignify that vile canard by saying there is not a mote of truth to it.

No matter how small, these motes of humanity following our orders are not to be sacrificed lightly.

Shame filled the air like motes of dust.

She screamed, half terrified, half ecstatic, feeling like a mote of dust tossed on an endless ocean.

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