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How to use splintery in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word splintery? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The wood was splintery and filled with so many holes it looked like a piece of Swiss cheese.
Inside the floors are splintery and rusty fans clank noisily above our heads.
The back of the truck was open, but the sides were enclosed with splintery, yellow wood.
All three versions combine the joy of dry, splintery pastry with the joy of chewy, indigestible glop.
She takes half-hour showers after work and makes Dr Pepper popsicles in the ice tray, splintery brown cubes she sucks between her fingers.
My jumping-off place was one side of a decayed gray dock that rested on splintery posts.
It seems extraordinary that this crumbling little eatery with its plastic tumblers and splintery benches should be so favoured by the rich and famous.
My first exposure to the piece came from the splintery wood cabinet in the corner of the studio.
It may be distinguished from jadeite, jade's other form, by its splintery fracture and oily lustre.
I was aware of the wooden steps, the wooden porch, the wooden door as the splintery portal to the Day of Judgment.
Johnstone and I were on the splintery dock of his home, on a river south of Mobile.
It is sectile, slightly flexible, with no apparent cleavage but with a splintery fracture.
Fracture is conchoidal, uneven, irregular to splintery.
Examples from Classical Literature
Usually odorless, not splintery, not resinous, with little contrast between early and late wood.
A brittle wood breaks suddenly with a clean instead of a splintery fracture and without warning.
Yes, over the surface of the water radiated a ferny, splintery film, which was ice.
Calcareous incrustations, including fragments of madrepores, and of shells, cemented by splintery carbonate of lime.
The nature of the bark is known by its splintery, fibrous, or corky texture.
Hornstone is more brittle than flint and has a splintery rather than a conchoidal fracture.
It is rarely used for inside finishing, owing to its brittle and splintery character.
The next rock is a porphyritic horn-stone, and splintery horn-stone.
The splintery exchange of two people who'd lost the knack of hearing each other.
But on December 19th came another dreadful and splintery packing-case.
It was a large room, with a rough splintery floor, unplastered rafters overhead, and two bedsteads on opposite sides.
Its like you took a painting of a lush forest and put it in a splintery old woody picture frame, then hung it on the wall on a rusty railroad spike.
Which fence-sitting Scot might be lured to our side of his splintery throne by Gyles Brandreth, a plummyvoiced failed Tory MP and knitwear enthusiast?
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