Examples of sliver in a Sentence
Noun
I got a sliver of wood stuck in my finger.
Verb
carefully slivered the rattan stems into strips for basketry
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Ryan Slattery, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2025
Even during the partial phases of a total eclipse, the remaining sliver of the sun's disk is still bright enough to overwhelm the faint corona.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 17 Dec. 2024
After temporarily pulling the menu item from roughly a fifth of its U.S. restaurants, the company said Sunday that the burger will return to affected locations, sans slivered onions.
—Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Karts go 30 miles per hour, and the course includes a sliver of track form the real grand prix circuit.
—Ryan Slattery, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2025
Even during the partial phases of a total eclipse, the remaining sliver of the sun's disk is still bright enough to overwhelm the faint corona.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
This all comes despite a setback in October with an E. coli outbreak linked to slivered onions on its Quarter Pounders.
—Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 17 Dec. 2024
After temporarily pulling the menu item from roughly a fifth of its U.S. restaurants, the company said Sunday that the burger will return to affected locations, sans slivered onions.
—Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Sliver.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sliver. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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