splinter

Example Sentences

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It was so overrun with ivy that the windowpanes were splintering.

From Literature

And earlier this month, seven of those MPs splintered off from the party in protest at the authoritarian management of long-standing leader Wilders.

From Barron's

There are some things that really are beyond repair—a rusted pot with a splintered handle, a box of books so damaged by water they’re mildewed and hard to read.

From Literature

There were splinters in odd places, but he wasn’t about to tell Aaron that and have to explain how he’d gotten them.

From Literature

Ours is a history in which New York robber barons used the promise of belonging to splinter the poor into factions and manipulate them into fighting among themselves during the Gilded Age.

From Los Angeles Times