The phrase "a sliver from" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small piece or portion taken from a larger whole, often in a metaphorical or literal sense.
Example: "She shared a sliver from her childhood memories that brought tears to our eyes."
Alternatives: "a fragment of" or "a piece of".
Types of adzes, fishhooks, and certain ornaments recur, including reel-shaped necklace units and pendants of whale teeth, unshaped or shaped by carving a sliver from the lower end.
In 1999, the Briarwood Organization took a chance by building 40 two-family homes between Beach 59th and 61st Streets for a project called Waters Edge -- a sliver from the long-dormant, rubble-strewn, 308-acre Arverne Urban Renewal Area that dominates the Rockaways' central corridor.
Last week House Republicans defeated a proposal by Representative David Obey (D-WI) to give NIH a 5.5% raise by trimming a sliver from the recent tax cut.
It's a mélange of diverse elements, a piece from this culture and a sliver from that heritage.
We know when someone's giving us their full focus or just a sliver, and I'm committed to offering more than a sliver from now on.
In the original version, the giant devil's trap keeping demons away from the gateway to Hell was much more complex, with each point in the pentagram being a church housing a holy relic such as a sliver from the True Cross.
A plain-stitch fabric is used as the base and loose fibres from a sliver, fed from a brushing or carding device, are inserted by a V-shaped claw, forming the pile.
The First, from 1965, is like a sliver chipped from one of Morton Feldman's imposing glaciers; three more quartets, unnumbered, count among his juvenilia.
Among the euro-zone countries Italy will remain the most acute concern, with a risk that its government debt, which accounts for a quarter of the euro zone's bonds, gets downgraded to "BBB-", just a sliver away from junk status, by Standard & Poor's, a ratings agency.
But then, so many comedies are only a sliver away from being terrifying psycho thrillers; I remember getting sweaty-palmed in Clockwise while all around me roared with laughter as John Cleese's attempts to reach a conference went horribly wrong, resulting in escalating humiliation and madness; this was like one of my worst nightmares.
This component was absent from a comparable scan of a stem sliver from which the inner parenchyma material had been removed with a blade.
