fragmentary

Example Sentences

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The full picture isn't clear, but the emails give fragmentary glimpses, with mentions of opportunities and connections in China, the Gulf and Libya.

From BBC

For criticism, streaming snippets are now carried along in a fragmentary rush of social media, bumping aside analog writing and reading.

From Los Angeles Times

First published in the New Yorker, “The Wife on Ambien” is a fragmentary, oddly compelling riff on marriage.

From Los Angeles Times

They show fragmentary urban scenes — a few palm trees illuminated by the glow of an unseen automobile’s headlights, the artist’s bland backyard, some mute shops — but the images aren’t compelling.

From Los Angeles Times

Debord’s genius was in seeing that world in its totality and not in the fragmentary form in which it wants to be seen.

From Salon