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
We ascended the Santa Monica Pier’s weather-eaten, splintery steps and walked to the end and back.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2021
Fish draws Wendy’s actual surroundings in jagged, splintery black lines and gray wash.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2017
Uneven fracture patterns are described as irregular, splintery, fibrous.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
Thomas could see several clumsily prepared wooden crosses poking through this growth, their horizontal pieces lashed to the upright ones with a splintery twine.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
Vocabulary lists containing splintery
"Mississippi Solo," Vocabulary from the memoir
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"Boar Out There" by Cynthia Rylant
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