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Meanings of splintery in English
Synonyms
Examples for "bit"
Examples for "bit"
1
The second year we saw quite a bit of improvement, he said.
2
But reality bit this past week; not everyone wants to join Sunderland.
3
So the situation is a bit different from before the Lehman crisis.
4
This sophomore experience was quite a bit different than the previous year.
5
Actually, since January of this year sales have increased quite a bit.
1
An open source chip architecture called RISC-V could soon help change that.
2
But the chip deal is in doubt over U.S. national security concerns.
3
It expects its chip business to remain in the red this year.
4
This year, I'm not so sure it needs an Intel chip anymore.
5
Blue chip companies that have reported better earnings so far also gained.
1
After 10 days, my feet were finally flake free and silky soft.
2
I immediately let go of the flake, and again heard that sound.
3
She smiled at the ticket-chopper and dropped the flake into the box.
4
He began pressing with the antler along the edge of the flake.
5
Any frescoes were good when they started to peel and flake off.
1
This time she managed to chip off a fleck of the polish.
2
Above was the dazzling sky, not a fleck in its blue fire.
3
Farther in it got darker, not even a fleck of moonlight shone.
4
She sat up to look at it, seeing the images, shadowy, fleck-filled.
5
Yet each fruit has conspicuously on it a fleck of reflected light.
1
A slivery peal of laughter burst from Margaret.
2
Shirtsleeve loose, it exposed the wrist sheath holding his remaining slivery stiletto strapped to his forearm.
Usage of splintery in English
1
Axes had gouged splintery holes through the wood to serve as windows.
2
Blood streaks across the splintery dock and into the early morning shadows.
3
Under the draped webs, they could just see another of the splintery workbenches.
4
I put my hand on the splintery dock to steady myself.
5
Some had splintery threads hanging around their cuts like used toothpicks.
6
They filed into the narrow, high-ceilinged chapel, beneath splintery exposed rafters.
7
Amy froze, refusing to put even her toe on the weathered, splintery wood.
8
Some were snapped off clean, some bent outwards, some smashed into splintery brooms.
9
Two ill-glued legs fell off it, and the rest crumpled to splintery matchwood.
10
He could hide, in the dust on the splintery wood floor.
11
Their fracture is exceedingly irregular, and splintery; yet small fragments are often very tough.
12
The sound of his splintery voice doused all the wonder.
13
The nature of the bark is known by its splintery, fibrous, or corky texture.
14
I remember every birth. I sat down and leaned back against the splintery logs.
15
But on December 19th came another dreadful and splintery packing-case.
16
He tottered in on legs like slats of splintery wood.
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Splintery through the time