How to Use fragment in a Sentence

fragment

1 of 2 noun

• The dish lay in fragments on the floor.
• I could only hear fragments of their conversation.
• The red fragments highlight dust that is warmed by the largest and brightest stars in the center.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2023
• Glass fragments were found on the ground where the vehicle had been parked.
  — cleveland, 14 July 2023
• The pipe crushed his spine, and fragments of bone badly bruised his spinal cord.
  — Maya Miller, Sacramento Bee, 22 Feb. 2024
• His dog, Harper, was the first on the L.A. team to make a find: a 4-inch fragment of bone buried in the charred maze of a junkyard.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• This guy got his head banged and bone fragments left on the weapon of his execution.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
• But the Seychelles are fragments of an ancient continent dropped in the middle of the sea.
  — Frank Hulley-Jones, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• The wall that the Romans built to enclose the City of London still survives in fragments and in streets that follow its route.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• Most of what has been discovered are bone fragments, teeth and shreds of clothing.
  — Pascale Bonnefoy, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Aesthetic pleasure glints at the jagged angles of the fragment.
  — Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
• However, the search for fragments of a meteor that lit up the sky in the region in 2016 wasn’t fruitful, Pitt said.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
• Two bullet fragments were also found inside the apartment, one on the stairs and one in front of the living room window.
  — Daniel McFadin, arkansasonline.com, 5 Dec. 2023
• That's because the team found only fragments of skulls, arms, and hips at the Moroccan site rather than full bodies of bones.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• The shell fragments came from four Mesolithic hunter-gatherer sites and 11 sites ranging from the Neolithic up to the Iron Age.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
• Crushed bone fragments were discovered on the site in 1990 by family members who’d combed the desert for years.
  — Maggie Shipstead Anthony Cotsifas, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• Bug fragments and rat hair in your peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
• Bomb fragments severed her spinal cord and paralyzed her from the waist down, doctors said.
  — Samar Abu Elouf Samar Abu Elouf, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• The posts the singer has been sharing on her Close Friends outlet have included fuzzy fragments of artwork, most of them awash in blue hues.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2024
• The soldiers come with bandaged limbs soaked in blood, faces blackened with shrapnel fragments and stunned eyes fixed on the ceiling, frozen in shock.
  — Samya Kullab, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2023
• The fragments struck the Kremlin after the drones were shot down by Russia's military, the government said.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
• Made of clay, it was wedged above a human skull and surrounded by fragments of a striated wig.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• An additional third of the particles were in the form of plastic fragments.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2024
• Hudson was standing in the doorway of a building in the village when he was struck by a fragment from an enemy gas shell.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
• It’s believed to be the broken fragment of a much larger asteroid.
  — Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2023
• The approach represents a new one in the field of liquid biopsy, in which DNA fragments in blood are used to detect or learn about tumors.
  — Matthew Herper Reprints, STAT, 9 Oct. 2023
• During the peeling process, dipping the eggs in a bowl of water can not only help speed up the peeling process but also rinse shell fragments off of your egg.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2024
• Among the pieces found were fragments of a flat board, which had a series of holes carved into it, as well as 25 ceramic tokens, researchers said.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
• The boy had a gunshot wound to his left arm and a bullet fragment had gone into his torso, stopping at his ribs just short of his lung, the affidavit states.
  — Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 20 Nov. 2023
• The fragment was located at the base of a towering rock cliff, presumably having fallen from the rock above.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023

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fragment

2 of 2 verb

• The party is fragmenting into warring factions.
• These issues are fragmenting our society.
• The first is that Germany’s fragmenting party system could open the way for the AfD to come first in one or more of the three polls.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2019
• Even with their last half hour of sleep fragmented, snoozers didn’t feel more tired during the day.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2023
• The animals are not adept jumpers, so fences fragment their habitat.
  — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 13 Feb. 2020
• The audience is also fragmented thanks to the boom in streaming.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Oct. 2023
• By 1983, part of the rock coalition began to fragment and fall apart, and that was the result of the influence of what was going on over at MTV.
  — Ron Hart, Billboard, 30 May 2019
• Or would those same devs see it as fragmenting a base group of players?
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 25 June 2018
• Walk farther into the space, however, and the wall appears to fragment.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 21 June 2018
• The sport has a lot on the line as the most dominant group of players in tennis history begins to fragment.
  — Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 24 May 2018
• But despite the importance, the view of the predicament has often been fragmented.
  — Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Currently, stock trading is fragmented across 13 exchanges and dozens of over-the-counter venues known as dark pools.
  — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
• New dams could fragment habitats, lead to overfishing, and threaten the giant Mekong species, Hogan says.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2022
• There’s suddenly a ton of money sloshing around, and, slowly, the tech world is starting to fragment.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2023
• The streaming landscape got complicated and fragmented just in time for the bottom to fall out.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2023
• The Rus’ state had become fragmented, beset by quarrelling among its princes.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Any line of storm that forms is likely to be fragmented, meaning that some areas may get hit hard, while others are passed over.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 9 May 2018
• By contrast, middle-of-the-road and progressive sources were fragmented.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Don't unify your team and your company will fragment or fracture.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• As the birth draws closer the grieving family continues to fragment.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Feb. 2022
• The seminal British band has long been on the front lines of preserving what’s left of the rock scene, fragmented by streaming and buoyed by dad-rock nostalgia culture.
  — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• And if successful, these endeavors could fragment the World Wide Web.
  — Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 12 July 2023
• People can sometimes awake abruptly as a result, and sleep is fragmented.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 29 June 2023
• Venus’ crust isn’t clearly fragmented like Earth’s to allow for plate tectonics.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
• As the television landscape fragmented over the past decade, many shows have been canceled by major networks and then picked up by smaller platforms.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 12 May 2018
• Mountaineers say climbing routes in the Himalayas will get tougher as glaciers that keep the rocks together are now retreating, fragmenting and melting.
  — Eric Niiler, WIRED, 19 June 2019
• The root cause of Jeanette’s confusion is how medical information gets fragmented in the process.
  — Rajeev Ronanki, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Causes of the surge include a decade-long crackdown on drug cartels, which has caused gangs to fragment and diversify into new areas.
  — Ciara Nugent, Time, 29 June 2018
• British advocates of Brexit have long harbored ambitions not just to fragment the European Union but to wreck it.
  — Matthew Rosenberg, New York Times, 13 July 2018
• In the Bay Area, that threat has fragmented a unique and intimate relationship with China that has endured for more than a century.
  — Anna Bauman, SFChronicle.com, 11 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 3 May 2024