Sentence examples for a large splinter of from inspiring English sources

2. A large splinter of a broken bat sails toward the third baseman and prevents him from making a play on a batted ball.

Thus, a large splinter of cortex in a fracture of the tibia displaced dorsally into the soft parts is shown in a roentgenogram taken shortly after the injury (Fig.  14).

But when pushed to the brink, politicians rallied to stop the unthinkable from happening, amid fears of a larger splintering of the monetary union.

A large splinter had lodged in Mr. Bartels's hand.

Picture this if you will: a large wooden splinter the size of your front tooth is stuck in the bottom of your foot.

The FDLR — or the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda — is one of a large number of splinter rebel groups operative in eastern DRC.

Final results of the vote showed that Mr. Le Pen had benefited from a large field of candidates that splintered the vote.

Both KZ and KN were clandestine incarnations of the pre-war National Radical Movement (Ruch Narodowo Radykalny, also known as ONR-Falanga" – a large extreme-right splinter group of the National Radical Camp).

The Lithuanian took advantage when a large breakaway group splintered towards the end of the 182km (113-mile) run from Tarvisio to Vajont.

She whipped out a sheer silk stocking and a splinter of wood, and squeeee-ran the splinter down the stocking.

Graham Greene's quote about there being a "splinter of ice in the heart of a writer"?