splinter
Example Sentences
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And like all of television, reality is facing splintered and waning audiences so the decibel level of that conversation-sparking is often dialed way up.
From Los Angeles Times
Above us hammer blows and splintering wood showed where a squad of trained searchers was probing for the secret room.
From Literature
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The lock was on the floor among splinters.
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Finally, he scraped the antlers and the long bones clean, and tied them into a bundle for splintering later into fishhooks, needles and arrowheads.
From Literature
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It was heavy, and I bumped against the doorframe, scraping my knuckles on the splintered wood.
From Literature
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