splintering

Example Sentences

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Splintering myself sartorially between “Serious Weekday Megan” and “Fun Weekend Megan” has always seemed a dubiously valuable performance of adulthood.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 16, 2020

Rusbridger's speech in Sydney – the annual Andrew Olle lecture, titled The Splintering of the Fourth Estate – touched on a range of other subjects about the future of newspapers in the digital era.

From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2010

The glittering leaves of the rhododendron Are shaken like blue-green blades of grass, Flickering, cracking, falling: Splintering in a million fragments.

From Goblins and Pagodas by Fletcher, John Gould

Splintering, the chief source of wounds and death in wooden ships, was thus entirely avoided; the danger was, that our machinery might be disabled, or that shots might strike below the water-line, and sink us.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various

Splintering, the chief source of wounds and death in wooden ships, was thus entirely avoided; the danger was that our machinery might be disabled, or that shots might strike below the water-line and sink us.

From Army Life in a Black Regiment by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth