splintery
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"While it too often sands the complications off what you sense should feel like an uncomfortably splintery issue, in its best moments, it's a quietly fearsome piece of drama," wrote the Telegraph's Robbie Collin.
From BBC ● May 31, 2023
“For What It’s Worth” rode an appealingly swampy groove and had a splintery solo by Young; “Mr. Soul” was a jagged blast of whammy-bar psychedelia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
Uneven fracture patterns are described as irregular, splintery, fibrous.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
She’s a performance artist in “Fatebe Floor Piece,” in which she’s cutting a splintery circle in a gallery’s wooden floor, using her head like a jigsaw.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2015
Stubby tree branches, splintery scrap boards, even pieces of wadded-up paper that look like garbage.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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"Mississippi Solo," Vocabulary from the memoir
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