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

To be a wave Splintering on the sand, Drawing back, but leaving Lingeringly the land.

From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass by Lowell, Amy

Splintering rock began to fall on the inner side of the assaulted portal.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

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