FRAGMENT in a Sentence

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For FRAGMENT, below is one of 106 sentences:
The huge green fragment of ice on which she alighted pitched and creaked as her weight came on it, but she staid there not a moment.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRAGMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fragment
 n.  small part broken off or detached; fraction
Classic Sentence: (88 in 6 pages)
1  After four spoonfuls of it, the heat of the room was too much and, taking the lamp in one hand and a fragment of pone in the other, she went out into the hall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
2  Mr. Bart dropped into a chair, and sat gazing absently at the fragment of jellied salmon which the butler had placed before him.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
3  In her fluid thought certain convictions appeared, jaggedly, a fragment of an impression at a time, while she was going to sleep, or manicuring her nails, or waiting for Kennicott.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  He hastily wrapped up the leprous fragment of fish; he gaped as she trailed out.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  Uncas, without making any reply, bounded away from the spot, and in the next instant he was seen tearing from a bush, and waving in triumph, a fragment of the green riding-veil of Cora.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
6  Without exhausting himself with fruitless efforts, the cunning Magua suffered his body to drop to the length of his arms, and found a fragment for his feet to rest on.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
7  The huge green fragment of ice on which she alighted pitched and creaked as her weight came on it, but she staid there not a moment.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  By an unlucky slip, however, a fluttering fragment of the ribbon hung out of one of her sleeves, just as she was finishing, and caught Miss Ophelia's attention.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
9  What's more, each declaimed some phrase or fragment from their parts.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
10  To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight
11  Mrs. Nunsuch went and searched till she found a fragment of the narrowest red ribbon, which she took downstairs and tied round the neck of the image.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
12  He had returned with the prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
13  It appears to be a fragment torn from a larger sheet.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
14  You see that his murderer might have torn the rest of the sheet from him or he might have taken this fragment from the murderer.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
15  A small fragment of the wood was hanging down.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  A fragment of Psalm 83 is legible but it will take much longer to analyze the whole manuscript.
2  He was fond of quoting a fragment from a certain poem.
3  The fragment mass distributions of platelike objects are investigated by conducting two types of experiments.
4  I heard only a fragment of their conversation.
5  They have found several fragments of a Roman vase in the area.
6  The road was covered with fragments of glass from the shattered window.
7  Liberty and civilization are only fragments of rights wrung from the strong hands of wealth and book learning.
8  She dropped the bowl on the floor and it broke into fragments.
9  Keep down or you'll be hit by shell fragments.
10  Under the pressure, the flint crumbled into fragments.
11  She could recall only fragments of his poetry.
12  A doctor used a probe to remove metal fragments from a wound.
13  Despite ambitious plans to rebuild them as replicas, much more basic and urgent is the shoring up of the cliff face, which is in danger of collapsing, and simply collecting and protecting the remaining fragments of the statues.
14  Our basic and urgent job is to simply collect and protect the remaining fragments of the statues.
15  Muons are produced when cosmic rays - high-speed atom fragments that hurtle through space - smash into the atmosphere; they carpet bomb Earth at a rate of 10,000 per square meter per minute.