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Example sentences for "splinter"

Lexicographically close words:
spliced; splices; splicing; splint; splinted; splintered; splintering; splinters; splintery; splints
  1. And he would say no more till he had examined the little splinter of wood in its glare.

  2. While doing this he dug his fingernails under a large splinter in the old planking and pulled it loose.

  3. Of this last act Teddy Silsey was unaware, because a splinter of some sort, striking on his steel helmet, had stunned him and dropped him completely insensible.

  4. Splinter hit it, and smashed it, and most of the wounds are from bits of the stone—luckily for you, because if it hadn’t been there a chunk of Boche iron would just about have gone through you.

  5. There Shirty was placed on a stretcher and made ready for the ambulance, and the other two, after their splinter cuts and several slight wounds had been bandaged, prepared to walk back.

  6. This place is quite leaky and draughty enough now without it getting any more shrap or splinter holes punched in it.

  7. He wanted to make sure, and he wouldn’t chance a splinter from his own bomb.

  8. The knocking at the door was like to splinter the panels.

  9. Kalevatar took the splinter To the magic virgin, Kapo, Who by unknown force and insight.

  10. It’s no game for Christians,” remarked Owen Kelly, picking his teeth with a splinter of wood.

  11. He approached the fire, one hand deep in his pocket, the other holding a splinter of wood which he threw into the flames.

  12. When he had nearly reached the level of the abandoned trail, he fastened one end of the rope to a jutting splinter of granite, and began to "lay out," and work his way laterally along the face of the mountain.

  13. Then he rubbed the glass with the splinter of quartz, wetted it with turpentine, and bored.

  14. He found a double window, and with a splinter of quartz cut a pane out.

  15. With a key he knocked off one splinter of glass after another, each not larger than a grain of sand, this took him several days, but at last he had made the pane round.

  16. The splinter was expected to blaze when dipped into the acid.

  17. It was not Francis," he repeated shakily, while his trembling fingers picked at a splinter in the door-frame.

  18. I'm not hurt, Bob--only a splinter struck me.

  19. Smoky" picked up a fence-rail splinter and laid it on his shoulder.

  20. And if the young wife has a kinsman who is absent from the village, some of the relish is put on a splinter of bamboo and kept against his return, that when he comes he, too, may rub his feet with it.

  21. The mouth may be kept open by a short splinter or a ball of paper.

  22. Open the frog's mouth as widely as possible and, if necessary, insert a splinter to hold the jaws apart.

  23. No one spoke, and still I dared not satisfy myself by looking at the splinter I held.

  24. Augustus gave no indication of life whatever, and was bent nearly double across a splinter of the windlass.

  25. While he stood there, a shot hit the rail diagonally, a splinter struck him in the side, and he dropped helpless into the water.

  26. I know I'm dull, Mr. Somers, but splinter my figger head if I can see through it.

  27. A tiny bit of leopard skin covered her ratskin torso from shoulder to splinter knee.

  28. Suddenly a broad grin overspread his face, for a turn of the girl's body had revealed Geeka of the ivory head and the rat skin torso--Geeka of the splinter limbs and the disreputable appearance.

  29. The splinter could only be removed by a very critical operation, and this operation must be deferred until the patient's bodily strength was in some measure restored.

  30. And why look at the splinter in your brother's eye instead of giving careful attention to the beam in your own?

  31. How can you say to your brother, `Brother, let me take that splinter out of your eye,' when all the while you yourself do not see the beam in your own eye?

  32. For instance, a party of natives having come to visit a chief in a fine new canoe, the chief got into it, but in doing so a splinter entered his foot, and the blood trickled on the canoe, which at once became sacred to him.

  33. Splinter netting was got up; masts and yards were struck; everything was made ready for an attack.

  34. We prepared for action, got all our upper masts down, unrove a deal of rope, placed shot about the deck, and demolished all bulkheads; and when once the splinter nettings were placed we knew that business was meant.

  35. Through one of these a sharp splinter of wood had been driven.

  36. The cracks in the shrunken woodwork attracting the attention of the natives, they fell to work on the widest of these, and with their spears began chipping away the plank splinter by splinter.

  37. But I know you well enough, my man; and you can scarcely have forgotten Lieutenant Splinter of the Torch, one would think?

  38. Osborne in the round house wounded by a splinter just in the temple, the Captain's boy on the Quarter Deck a small shott raised his scull through his cap and was the first person wounded and att the first onsett.

  39. For several hours the rocky shores were searched for some traces of the wreck, but not a spar or splinter could be found.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "splinter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bit; blemish; breach; break; breakage; burst; butt; camp; caucus; chip; chunk; cleft; clip; clipping; collide; collop; crack; crash; crumb; crunch; crush; cut; cutting; demolish; diffuse; disperse; disrupt; division; dollop; end; faction; fission; fissure; fracture; fragment; gap; grind; gruel; hunk; impurity; interest; intruder; lath; lump; mince; misfit; modicum; moiety; morceau; morsel; mote; nip; offshoot; paper; paring; particle; party; patch; piece; pulverize; rail; rake; rasher; rent; rift; rupture; scale; scatter; scoop; scrap; sect; sectarian; shadow; shard; shatter; shaving; shiver; shred; side; skeleton; slash; slat; slice; slip; slit; sliver; smash; smatter; snack; snatch; snip; soup; speck; splinter; split; squash; stitch; stone; streak; stump; tatter; tear; vein; wafer; weed