| Lia gently lifted up one of the half-collapsed shelves, careful not to get her hand caught between the two splintered wafers of wood. |
| Homes atop the town's hills were reduced to mounds of shingles and splintered wood. |
| He did, however, blow his bottom off and reduce the kitchen to splintered matchwood. |
| The visitor's lips were twisted blue with cold, the voice was of splintered ice. |
| Fallen trees lay everywhere, along with a substrate of splintered wood and sawdust. |
| Although the government and opposition signed a peace protocol, both are weak and splintered, unable to restrain their rank and file supporters. |
