sliver

Example Sentences

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London was a sliver ahead, but other European stock markets dipped.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Twenty20 cricket is a game of small margins, but it's also one in which you need a sliver of luck to thrive.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

Looking closely, I spied a thin black outline between the car and the building, a sliver of the car’s original background.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026

The excursion the cruise line touted the most, though, was a hot new beach club on a 17-acre sliver of Paradise Island.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

The goat’s milk soap we brought from the Ranch is down to a sliver now, so I scrub carefully to use as little as possible.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy