SHRED in a Sentence

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For SHRED, below is one of 24 sentences:
How the wild winds blow it; they whip it about me as the torn shreds of split sails lash the tossed ship they cling to.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHRED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shred
 n.  a small amount; a long, narrow piece cut or torn off; long irregular strip that is cut or torn off
Classic Sentence:
1  But the breezes shred all asunder and give them unaccomplished to the clouds.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
2  Phoebus heard, and inly granted half his vow to prosper, half he shred into the flying breezes.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
3  She threw away the shred of Old Man's Beard that she had picked in passing and kicked open the greenhouse door.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
4  Then she turned wearily to Kennicott in a house filled with quiet and crumbs and shreds of Chinese costumes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  She did not taste the shreds of roast pork.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  He rummaged in the roll-top desk on which Nat Hicks kept bills, buttons, calendars, buckles, thread-channeled wax, shotgun shells, samples of brocade for "fancy vests," fishing-reels, pornographic post-cards, shreds of buckram lining.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  For even when coming into slight contact with the outer, vapoury shreds of the jet, which will often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
8  How the wild winds blow it; they whip it about me as the torn shreds of split sails lash the tossed ship they cling to.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
9  On the table in the window were several shreds from a pencil which had been sharpened.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
10  I am sure you did not, for a duster would have swept away these shreds of varnish.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
11  Above me, in the intense blue of the summer sky, some faint brown shreds of cloud whirled into nothingness.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III
12  I found the mess to consist of indifferent potatoes and strange shreds of rusty meat, mixed and cooked together.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  But he did neither: and, when he was sitting alone in the deserted tram, he tore his ticket into shreds and stared gloomily at the corrugated footboard.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
14  Her nerves must be shredded if the noise of the well windlass, bound up in her earliest memories, could frighten her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence:
1  We cannot afford to lose our reputation, not even a shred of our reputation.
2  There is not a shred of evidence that the meeting actually took place.
3  The clothes were ripped to shreds and covered in blood.
4  Cut the orange peel into fine shreds.
5  The critics tore his performance to shreds.
6  Its springtime for President Bill Clinton as he watches his Republican challengers rip each other to shreds.
7  Within a year, other researchers had torn the theory to shreds.
8  She wrote an opprobrious editorial in the newspaper about the critic who tore her new play to shreds.
9  The EU recently shredded old euro coins and sent the scrap nickel and copper to China.
10  Serve the fish on a bed of shredded lettuce.