SPLINTER in a Sentence
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46 example sentences for SPLINTER, such as:
1. I've got a splinter in my finger.
2. A fresh cascade of splintered glass tinkled to the floor.
3. I got a splinter in my finger while I was moving the boxes.
4. The blows of the enemy would splinter regiments into fragments.
5. Shells thrown in reply were raising clouds of dust and splinters.
2. A fresh cascade of splintered glass tinkled to the floor.
3. I got a splinter in my finger while I was moving the boxes.
4. The blows of the enemy would splinter regiments into fragments.
5. Shells thrown in reply were raising clouds of dust and splinters.
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Meanings and Examples of SPLINTER
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splinter
v. withdraw from an organization or communion
v. break up into splinters or slivers
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1 Some persons even got a splinter in their heart, and then it made one shudder, for their heart became like a lump of ice.
2 A sailor's wife, who was always proud and fine, in her way, came to her neighbor, and complained that she had got a splinter in her finger.
3 "It is a mahogany splinter," said the other.
4 The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him.
5 His ivory leg had been snapped off, leaving but one short sharp splinter.
6 The blows of the enemy would splinter regiments into fragments.
7 Pale husks had stuck in their hair, and it was easy to run a splinter of wood into the fingers.
8 At any moment guns would rake that land into furrows; planes splinter Bolney Minster into smithereens and blast the Folly.
9 Next instant, with a loud shout of triumph he held up one splinter, in which a round, dark object was fixed like a plum in a pudding.
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10 His gun burst while out on the hills by himself; a splinter cut his arm, and he lost a good deal of blood before he could reach home.
11 The cook, with her thigh broken by a shell splinter, had been carried into the kitchen.
12 It flew from right to left, and back again, almost in one ticking of a watch, and every instant seemed on the point of snapping into splinters.
13 Shells thrown in reply were raising clouds of dust and splinters.
14 The fine splinters still flew about in the air: and now we shall hear what happened next.
15 The young, who can't make, but only break; shiver into splinters the old vision; smash to atoms what was whole.
Example Sentence:
1 I got a splinter in my finger while I was moving the boxes.
2 I've got a splinter in my finger.
3 Removing the splinters from the wound was a long and painful process.
4 Since the unpopular Darfur Peace Agreement was signed by one of the three rebel factions last year, the groups have splintered into numerous fighting forces.
5 A fresh cascade of splintered glass tinkled to the floor.
6 To take on the south was to risk splintering the Democratic Party, then an angry amalgam of northern liberals, southern segregationists and pragmatists like the president, who tried to straddle the divide.