flake away

Though the surface flaked away, the main structure seemed sound.

It appeared to me that some of his skin flaked away.

But the white had flaked away and the blue was little more than a stain on the rock.

Temperature changes cause pieces of rock to flake away from the surface.

He rubbed his fingers together and whatever had been there flaked away.

It was dusty, and pieces of the cover flaked away in my hand.

The metal over which the strange colors had played flaked away.

The old Jonathan is crisp to the touch, ready to flake away.

He leaned the bike against the side of the house, where the paint was flaking away.

He rubbed the stuff between his fingers, and it flaked away at the touch.

The gems flaked away under the pressure of the knife.

My head no longer hurt, the wound was gone, the blood that had dried there would soon flake away.

Their scales flake away and leave large raw patches without daily treatment.

Portions of its outer covering flaked away as it moved.

If those first generations painted these walls, the paint had long since flaked away.

The tiles on the bathroom floor have begun to chip and flake away.

The original pigments of red and green had mostly flaked away, for the bed was old, a hundred years at least.

With the laughter a little more of the brittle hatred flaked away.

The old stuff just sort of flakes away.

The skin flaked away beneath his fingers until he found himself clutching little more than bone.

Maybe he should take the metal weapon and scratch his name in the sky, flake away the blue so that the rock could be seen.

The paint had flaked away from the wood in places, and a patch above the window was faded.

A small portion of the scene showing the couple with the cart flaked away and broke on the floor.

Hicks picked up his fork and flaked away a bite of fish.

And the paint was flaking away from the facade.