sliver

There was some small sliver of hope that Democrats could regain some lost ground in 2016 with Hillary Clinton on the ballot.

The governor with at least a tiny sliver of a heart is gone.

And if he can stabilize this sliver of the country, it could prevent another devastating war.

Leaving the OR that night, I looked up the clear sky, at the flocks of white seagulls and a sliver of crescent moon.

Despite name ID and fluent Spanish (there was a sizable Hispanic population in the area), he lost by a sliver.

I took a look around, trying to find a sliver of light that would reveal the part of the building in which the men were hiding.

There was Old Slade, from over on the bluff opposite, slyly cutting a sliver of salt fish from one in the bale upon which he sat.

I have heard noises something like them in sawmills when the circular saw happened to strike a sliver.

Once it raised its head and a sliver of flesh shook from its teeth before the face dropped again to devour.

In his hand he had a stone knife—you know, a thin, sharp sliver of some obsidian-like stuff same as they make arrow-heads out of.