shard

An autopsy report on an Arizona man who died in a crash noted a large shard in his neck that had a DTN serial number inscribed on it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

She seemed to hold no mistrust toward me and my halting Spanish, no shard of suspicion that I could use to create the usual distance around myself.

From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026

And he didn’t immediately know that a shard had broken free until he returned to the huddle Saturday night and teammates began pointing it out to him.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

There she saw a pottery shard bearing only the letters "Burs", and intrigued, began to research their meaning.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2024

I think that my whole world has cracked into all these little pieces, and the only way I can go about fixing it is one shard at a time.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

According to a video shared Monday on Threads, a Parton fan who planned to lay flowers at the star found that it was marred by what seemed to be shards from a broken candle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Next to the damaged station, dozens of onlookers stared at the flames roaring from the vehicle amid shards of glass and rubble, AFP journalists observed.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

In the aboveground labs, they used artificial intelligence and digital technologies to reassemble the millions of shards into recognizable forms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

Let cool completely on the baking sheet, then break into clusters and shards.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

The legs had been kicked away and used to break the windows, and were lying outside, softly crumbling into the earth among the nettles and the incorruptible shards of glass.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan