How to use "flakes" in a sentence

The headlights flashed on and off so rapidly that, they created a stroboscopic effect, repeatedly "freezing" the falling snow, so that it appeared as if the white flakes were descending to the ground in short, jerky steps.

Scattered flakes of snow collided softly with the windshield.

It wasn't the gauzy, insubstantial stirring of windblown flakes, but an unnatural and purposeful rising of an entire mound of white

As they ascended into the night, snow began to fall hard and fast in sheets of fine, dry flakes.

The flakes were hard, dry, and granular; they hissed like driven sand across the Perspex windscreen.