splintery
Example Sentences
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In one song, “Are You Blue,” O’Hara improvises with the band, her otherworldly soprano a contrast to the splintery score.
From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2024
"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
“For What It’s Worth” rode an appealingly swampy groove and had a splintery solo by Young; “Mr. Soul” was a jagged blast of whammy-bar psychedelia.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2023
This was the solution for my splintery basement floor.
From Washington Post • May 10, 2022
Cold iron and splintery wood closed off the only holes through the piled stones that hemmed them in.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Vocabulary lists containing splintery
"Mississippi Solo," Vocabulary from the memoir
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"Boar Out There" by Cynthia Rylant
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