The phrase "as a fragment of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is part of a larger whole or context, often in literary or analytical discussions.
Example: "The poem can be appreciated as a fragment of the broader cultural movement of its time."
Alternatives: "as a piece of" or "as a component of".
Attempting to describe the feeling, he flounders, unable to render the experience except as "a fragment of song".
The word was excused as a fragment of the word bureaucrats, various pieces of which flashed across the television screen in the spot by the Republican National Committee.
In "The World (89 Degrees)," from 1983, several of her earliest designs are collected into a single image: a city of ebbs and flows in which each building is conceived as a fragment of a larger urban vision.
In Arlington, Va., last year, the Newseum, a museum about the news media, introduced NewsCapade, a rolling exhibition of such artifacts as a fragment of the Berlin Wall and Bill Gates's autographed keyboard.
Robert D. Kaplan (Op-Ed, May 23) says Eritrea and Ethiopia, though physically in Africa, are not really a part of that continent but can instead be seen as "a fragment of the Middle East dislodged from Eurasia".
Schiller befriended the younger man in other ways too; in his periodical Neue Thalia, he published some of the poetry that Hölderlin had written, as well as a fragment of his novel Hyperion.
Once established, palm trees are nearly impossible to get rid of, as even a fragment of the tree's roots will sprout up into a new tree, even when the main body of the tree is removed.
Mr. Arteaga, a 43-year-old Mexican architect and art historian, added that Latin American art should be seen "as more than just a fragment" of Western art.
Here, as an example, we provide a fragment of the integral map for chromosome 1.
The C-terminal Lys residue with the fluorophore was also revealed as a fragment ion of 504.2 Da, which matched closely with the calculated mass of 505.91 Da.
Dziga Vertov's experimental documentary essay remains fascinating after all these years, as potent as an exposed fragment of sodium.
