A couple of paint flakes stuck to my skin.

As he descended the double staircase, mounds of paint flakes crunched underfoot.

The heavy metal door bowed on his first pull, layers of paint cracking and dropping to the ground, a battleship gray avalanche of paint flakes.

The photographs bore witness to the result - shattered windows, floors littered with paint flakes, doors overgrown by ivy, a crumpled flag on a deserted desk.

In addition, it said, there are paint flakes, spent rocket stages, abandoned nuclear reactors, inactive payloads and debris from tests of space weapons.

Last month, the environmental agency found lead-laced paint flakes in three community gardens in Brownsville.

The flash vibrated paint flakes from the ceiling, but otherwise did no harm.

They also posted a "do no eat" order for all fish taken from the stream, which are not hatchery fish but have been contaminated by paint flakes there.

When such paint flakes or is disturbed during even minor renovations, the home becomes filled with lead-containing dust.

A little more paint flakes off the statuary at the 1st and 13th Stations of the Cross.