splintery

Example Sentences

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"While it too often sands the complications off what you sense should feel like an uncomfortably splintery issue, in its best moments, it's a quietly fearsome piece of drama," wrote the Telegraph's Robbie Collin.

From BBC • May 31, 2023

This was the solution for my splintery basement floor.

From Washington Post • May 10, 2022

But if “Krisha” was a harrowing psychodrama rendered in a splintery John Cassavetes syntax, “It Comes at Night” portrays a different kind of breakdown, one etched in dim light and implacable shadows.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2017

A third non-foliated rock is hornfels identified by its dense, fine-grained, hard, blocky or splintery texture composed of several silicate minerals.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

The wall dividing our side of the house from the bar was made from shiny sheets of fake wood panelling, but the rest of the walls were rough, splintery boards painted pale green.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago