Sentence examples for as a shred from inspiring English sources

While it serves as a shred of hope, the weights on the 'Jon Snow is dead' side of the scales are made of solid lead.

Investigators never found so much as a shred of clothing or any other sign of K-Von in the woods where they found the remains of Alexander Xavier.

No bigger than a thumbnail, as insubstantial as a shred of tissue paper, it flashes from weed to weed, a wildly beating speck of blue that soon vanishes against the vaster, bluer backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean.

What's more, officials with the New York City Campaign Finance Board, which requires candidates to register with them, said they had not received so much as a shred of paper from the Brown campaign this year.

The unnecessarily and unpersuasively complicated complications sharpen his conflict with his life as a shredder until Zafris forces the novel's resolution.

At the Elma Airport Diner, where customers have a clear view of the cooling towers from outdoor picnic tables, Erin Hall, 42, a waitress, said she had been hired as a shredder operator at the Boise Cascade plant.

The impression he leaves, however, is that he will pull us out as soon as he finds a shred of a fig leaf.

The rest of the photographs are just as interesting, containing not a shred of sameness or uniformity, a common limitation of so much celebrity-oriented portraiture.

It might not be as satisfying as tossing them through a shredder or as fast since it takes about three minutes to destroy a single disc, but at least it leaves them ready to recycle and won't help create three-eyed fish.

Even that Haydn isn't as funny as this, though: a shred-ded version of Brendel playing Beethoven's Bagatelles, Op. 126.

Her voice slurred a little but she rode over it as if it were a shred of tobacco on her tongue, as if she could pause and wipe it away with a finger …" Elsewhere in the Observer interview, Salter gave his appraisal of William Faulkner: "He's not a very good writer, but he's a great writer".