fragments
Example Sentences
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The cataloged fragments were held on the concrete floor of Hangar 17 at John F. Kennedy Airport, and the authors describe the tense atmosphere inside the cavernous space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
There are large fragments of salt-eaten machinery littering the shore, relics of the island’s martial heyday.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
"She used this drive to make sense of ancient life through fragments of bone, bringing it to life once again," they said.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Across Nepal's flood disaster zone, survivors are returning to villages reduced to mud and debris, searching for belongings, documents and fragments of lives swept away in minutes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Particle physicists look at the subatomic realm with particle accelerators: they use magnetic fields or other means to get tiny particles moving very fast; when these particles collide with one another, they spit off fragments.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
