SPLINTER in a Sentence

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46 example sentences for SPLINTER, such as:

1. I've got a splinter in my finger.
2. A fresh cascade of splintered glass tinkled to the floor.
3. I got a splinter in my finger while I was moving the boxes.
4. The blows of the enemy would splinter regiments into fragments.
5. Shells thrown in reply were raising clouds of dust and splinters.

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splinter
 n.  sharp-edged fragment of anything split or shivered off more or less in the direction of its length; a thin piece of wood
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  Some persons even got a splinter in their heart, and then it made one shudder, for their heart became like a lump of ice.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
2  A sailor's wife, who was always proud and fine, in her way, came to her neighbor, and complained that she had got a splinter in her finger.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHADOW
3  "It is a mahogany splinter," said the other.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHADOW
4  The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  His ivory leg had been snapped off, leaving but one short sharp splinter.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
6  The blows of the enemy would splinter regiments into fragments.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
7  Pale husks had stuck in their hair, and it was easy to run a splinter of wood into the fingers.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
8  At any moment guns would rake that land into furrows; planes splinter Bolney Minster into smithereens and blast the Folly.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
9  Next instant, with a loud shout of triumph he held up one splinter, in which a round, dark object was fixed like a plum in a pudding.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
10  His gun burst while out on the hills by himself; a splinter cut his arm, and he lost a good deal of blood before he could reach home.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  The cook, with her thigh broken by a shell splinter, had been carried into the kitchen.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV
12  It flew from right to left, and back again, almost in one ticking of a watch, and every instant seemed on the point of snapping into splinters.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
13  Shells thrown in reply were raising clouds of dust and splinters.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
14  The fine splinters still flew about in the air: and now we shall hear what happened next.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
15  The young, who can't make, but only break; shiver into splinters the old vision; smash to atoms what was whole.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
Example Sentence:
1  I got a splinter in my finger while I was moving the boxes.
2  I've got a splinter in my finger.
3  Removing the splinters from the wound was a long and painful process.
4  Since the unpopular Darfur Peace Agreement was signed by one of the three rebel factions last year, the groups have splintered into numerous fighting forces.
5  A fresh cascade of splintered glass tinkled to the floor.
6  To take on the south was to risk splintering the Democratic Party, then an angry amalgam of northern liberals, southern segregationists and pragmatists like the president, who tried to straddle the divide.