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Sentence Examples An X-Ray showed that both bones in her forearm were broken and splintered, and in one place a bone had pierced the skin. Lia gently lifted up one of the half-collapsed shelves, careful not to get her hand caught between the two splintered wafers of wood. Although the government and opposition signed a peace protocol, both are weak and splintered, unable to restrain their rank and file supporters. Fallen trees lay everywhere, along with a substrate of splintered wood and sawdust. He did, however, blow his bottom off and reduce the kitchen to splintered matchwood. Homes atop the town's hills were reduced to mounds of shingles and splintered wood. The visitor's lips were twisted blue with cold, the voice was of splintered ice. From splintered bones in the coccyx, she was bedridden for nearly two years. Caught between old allegiances to the empire, on the one hand, and patriot neighbours, on the other, the confederacy splintered. At least four 15-year-old bushes were completely smashed to the ground, the canes splintered into kindling. The wood splintered against his knuckles as his fingers crushed through the door, his fury and anger taking hold of him. Two smashed ribs had poked splintered ends through his skin, and getting at them to renew the dressings was a painful business. The wood has severely splintered and several chunks of wood have come out of the boards. When they hit, a blast of light and heat and a rolling shockwave splintered all the siege engines and sent the legionnaires scrambling for cover. Charlie went ape, he hurled the planter at the lounge door, the wood splintered, cracked. Buffy came back up in a fighting stance holding a splintered piece of the table out in front of her. Most of the trees and grass, splintered and singed 10 years ago, have grown back to lush green. But only the tumbleweeds, sagebrush and cactus, that stood like splintered sentries, were visible in this vast wilderness. It began to tear slowly but not quickly enough as we collapsed onto the wood and rolled across the splintered planks. Barth clung to his bit of splintered wood, it bit into his arms and fingers, his eyes were open but turned inwards. Show More Sentences She shuffled his records until one slipped from her grasp and splintered on the hearth-stone. At the end of the bed was a cedar chest which was splintered on one side and looked to have been broken into. The plastic glass on the front door is cracked and splintered, and sheets and filthy blankets are draped over the dirty windows. Most of the furniture was broken or splintered and everything appeared to be at least ten years old. I walked to the main door and put my right arm on the slightly splintered, wooden doorway. Sam and Flick dived aside in the nick of time, just before the entire wooden shelf splintered against the floor. I squeezed the thing in my claw until it fractured and splintered into a spray of shards and powder. In fact, the black community is on the verge of becoming much more politically splintered. Royal first refused to concede and then insisted on a recount, the party looks as splintered as ever. Given the crisis in the country there is no way the splintered parties can handle it. A truly complex job, considering American culture has splintered viewer tastes. The group urged all of Darfur's splintered rebel factions to accept new peace negotiations due to open in Libya later this month. The liberal, nationalist and secular wings of the revolutionary movement splintered and faded, opposed by the religious faction. In addition, its Left was split equally along communist and social democratic lines, and the trade union movement was splintered as well. Tymoshenko is expected to close at least some of the gap by picking up votes splintered among candidates in the first round. It was in this act of destruction, where the spokes of the bicycle splintered off, that I came to know the material. His mind was running too efficiently, like a catapult launching a stone so fast that its pegs splintered. There are cave-like hollows in the walls, deep fissures, and piles of sharply splintered rock strewn about as if blasting has just taken place. The breeze whipped through the room and made fire sway side to side over splintered wood as it shrieked and sweltered, then fell. While online debates can be splintered and diffuse and sometimes clubby, I'm heartened by the sheer number of them. Show More Sentences The single general farm organization splintered decades ago when membership failed to resolve divisive issues. In 1958, the joint weather prediction unit splintered into separate centers serving military and civilian interests. This Declaration was adopted by the Human Rights Council in a splintered vote. To Mr. Angus's point, we understand the splintered nature of new media and how many ways kids consume music. The increasingly splintered views of Member States suggested that the underlying issues had not yet been adequately addressed. Near my nose, one of the wooden pallets splintered with a crack like a pistol shot. Germanys research and development remained splintered throughout the Second World War and did not lead to a useful weapon. Some once major groups have splintered into numerous small, and particularly vicious gangs. When this subsided, scattered patches of scummy oil and small bits of debris resembling splintered wood appeared. Haycock follows the hostilities with powerful economy, while tracing the artists' own splintered trajectories. It creates a strong family spirit at a time when natural families are often splintered and disintegrating. They put forward social processes designed to remould the splintered societies. There are several examples of ancient families or subfamilies being splintered and partially overlain by other groups expanding into the older language's territory. The record spins slowly, wobbling on the turntable, emitting crackly waves of virtually unrecognizable music, the melodies inalterably splintered and the rhythms disrupted. These protests have been about salving the consciences of many whose votes splintered the left and humiliated Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's candidacy. Upstairs, in the living room, splintered logs of hemlock cackled and spat from inside the wood stove. It was completely silent and tree boughs splintered the moonlight. Lieutenant Green was first through the narrow, splintered opening his men had created in the door. In lieu of a political party, the Tories have splintered into think tanks. I had found myself clinging like a barnacle to a splintered oak beam. Show More Sentences Michelle Cottle on what the freak-out reveals about the GOP's splintered base. Do not ride your bike if you see any sign of damage, such as broken, splintered, or delaminated carbon fiber. And even at its most splintered, the music remained intensely lyrical. He hit hard, shutters splintered and cracked as he went through them. The New York march was splintered several times by police, with some people heading north towards Harlem and others gathering in Times Square. It struck silver from the cockatoo and splintered the windscreen of a toy truck threading up the mountain where trees went down to steel. The communication structures are just as splintered as the economic conditions. The activities of armed groups, including militias and defence groups, gathered pace in both regions, and existing rebel groups further splintered along ethnic lines. A victor splintered and embittered, careening into the Third Reich. The incandescent vocal harmonies collide with fractured, defiant soundbite lyrics and their see-sawing, splintered instrumentation. In the widening gyre the greatest of them have splintered into matchwood. The stories are splintered and refracted, the progressions coiled. Check swing sets and other playground equipment for corrosion, deterioration, missing parts, splintered wood or sharp edges. The two Darfurian insurgent groups had splintered. But the practice of urban exploration has now splintered under the weight of relentless media attention, crackdowns by authorities and attempts at marketing exploitation – reforming along divergent lines. A few weeks later, the coalition in power splintered and he founded his own party, the National Movement, which became the main parliamentary Opposition party. During the last three years, the Islamists have become so vicious, destructive, splintered and out of control that it is unlikely Algerians or the international community would allow them to govern. The revolutionary movement splintered nearly everywhere. Others who opposed this development splintered off to found the Republican Network for Unity. Following 14 years of civil war, during which some rebel movements splintered and fought each other, trust between civilians and law enforcement personnel cannot be established overnight. Show More Sentences She does this by eliding the boundaries between a splintered world, her body's geography and a wounded people. The light shook and splintered in the puddles. A red glare came from an outward-bound steamer that was coaling. The government splintered when the coalition members could not agree. This splintered concentration of data further consolidates analytical capabilities in the hands of the few and divides the network into the analysors and the analysed. In telegraphic succession, the parents two-step, Charleston, lindy, twist, and frug, their dance harmony always splintered apart by their offspring. The OWS movement splintered after Mayor Michael Bloomberg had police raid Zuccotti Park and it has been unable to articulate a clear message since. Examples from Classical Literature The mountains along the canyon are all of metamorphic rock, splintered and shivered by too rapid cooling. In a fury he flung the glass from him, so that it crashed and splintered upon the floor. And even before the splintered fragments reached the ground he had crashed into the firer. The shower of rock is somewhat reminiscent of Ungava's meteor spray or splintered debris forced down a soldier's foxhole. At the site of the junction is the Truemmerfeld area, where the normal tissue is splintered and fragmented. White at the summit, black at the base, the shafted rocks rear splintered pinnacles, slanting like channel buoys. Then we splintered the hot stone by throwing water on it, and dug out the splinters. The mass of iron fell half in-board upon the now stayed boat, and gave her sternway, with a splintered plank. Lancaster placed his field, bowled a lightning ball, and splintered an old Oxonian's middle stump. Sir Richard Granville's mizzen-mast, which had beforetime been sorely hacked and splintered, fell with a crash. A big smile on his face and the splintered remains of his nightstick still stuck in his fist. Its bent and broken wings and shattered stays sprawled amidst new splintered wood, and its forepeak stuck into the ground. She was trying to clamber through a trellis of iron and splintered wood. No, he says it is certainly not broken, but it may be splintered. To pierce it would have splintered to pieces the sharpest sword. It had been so forcibly driven against the jamb that part of the woodwork was splintered. The bare vaulting of trees along the Mall was ceiled with lapis lazuli, and arched above snow that shone like splintered crystals. When he came to himself the splintered portions of his thighbone had been extracted, the torn flesh cut away, and the wound bandaged. Captain was dragged down, the shafts splintered, and one of them ran into his side. We also saw on our way the trunk of a tree barked in long strips and splintered deeply. Show More Sentences Not a vestige of the chest remained but a few splintered pieces of iron. Primitive Methodists failed to create a common institution at an 1826 conference and splintered into local, congregational gatherings. No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world. The sight of the splintered boat seemed to madden him, as the blood of grapes and mulberries cast before Antiochus's elephants in the book of Maccabees. A splattered stain, raying like the shadow of a bursting bomb, witnessed where a hurled glass or bottle had splintered with its contents against the wall. The left tibia much splintered, as well as all the ribs of the left side. The sticks were jerked out of her, deckhouses splintered to match-wood, rails ripped off, and, after the worst had passed, the covering boards began to go. Find more words! 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