Meanings of only fragmentary in English

There were only fragmentary images, nothing she could put her finger on.

He was very deliberate; not jerky, only fragmentary; at times profane.

These brief sketches are only fragmentary and have of necessity been hastily written.

Since conspiracies work in secret, only fragmentary proofs of their efforts ever come to light.

All of you forgot what happened here, and your memories of that summer are still only fragmentary.

The outlook is a promising one; but when the books are opened they reveal only fragmentary good intentions.

Bacon's splendid mind and unique intellectual vision produced, perhaps inevitably, considering his public activity, only fragmentary concrete achievements.

We have only fragmentary answers.

In the beginning there was "Guntram," of which we in America heard only fragmentary echoes in our concert-rooms.

Thus our knowledge of them is not only fragmentary, as has been said; it is imaginative even within its limits.

We must not divide our conception of the universe; for in dividing it, we have only fragmentary knowledge and we thus limit ourselves.

There are no records of the commerce of the American colonies, and only fragmentary records between 1776 and 1789.

Only fragmentary accounts of Beaverbrook's political history in England have as a rule drifted over here.

Background: Only fragmentary data are available on the burden of non-communicable diseases among immigrants in Europe, mostly limited to mortality by cause.