shard

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Recent Examples of shard The archaeologists also came across obsidian fragments and pottery shards. Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025 Gawp at its Opera House, rising from the water like a shard of ice, as Vigeland’s sculptures stretch across Frogner Park. Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Marta, traumatized and desperate, threatened to take her own life with a shard of glass. Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 29 Aug. 2025 The reader bobs along in the author’s stream of consciousness, riding crests of despair, anger, and hilarity as Toews assembles the shards of her past to investigate her will to write, which is deeply entwined with her will to live. Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shard
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Noun
  • Despite being only a sliver in size, the tachocline is believed to be the engine room of the un’s magnetic activity.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • To be clear, when tallying the human cost of these guns-everywhere laws, political assassinations make up a tiny sliver.
    John Feinblatt, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • What lingers are the fragments that weren’t rehearsed, a voice breaking, a note pulled from the back of a notebook, a chant that filled the room, a line spoken more to a spouse than to the cameras.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • One of these middens spanned an area the size of five football pitches and was packed with the remains of the feast—up to 15 million bone fragments.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Depending on the reactor’s power, its flux will vary dramatically, reaching hundreds of millions of particles per square centimetre per second.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Shake out filters or tap on the side of the trash can to remove any large particles that may have stuck to the filters.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Now for other people whose crepe myrtles look like yours, black bark and white specks are classic signs of crepe myrtle scales.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
  • There’s nothing worse than applying a full face of makeup, only for your best mascara to end up in smears or black specks across your face.
    Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Chiefs fans had a brief glimmer of hope as a flag was thrown on LA’s touchdown.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
  • There were glimmers of the magnificent past at the 2024 French Open against Iga Swiatek when Osaka won the second set 6-1 and was within a point of going 5-1 up in the decider.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Right now, the studio seems focused on delivering quality, memorable, and creative games that people want to play not just because of the brand name splash screen that will appear before the main menu.
    David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • And the American redstart — a jetblack little fellow with orange splashes — pretty much stopped breeding here in the early 2000s.
    Ari Daniel, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Its black and white or brown flecks convey a fresh, modern feel that's ideal for breaking away from the tyranny of basics.
    María Munsuri, Glamour, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Although other pests cause similar damage, thrips damage is often associate with numerous small flecks of dark green to black fecal matter.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Destroyed in one second by my mother, its shreds tossed into the garbage can under the sink.
    Miriam Toews September 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But shreds of the original were repurposed and reimagined into a new statement.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Shard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shard. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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