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.

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.

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

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

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

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