Sentence examples for could have split from inspiring English sources

What does it mean?" asked Bertrand with a Gallic shrug that could have split his shoulder blades.

They could have split the difference and gone to 10, but I think they felt they had no choice.

And in that time, the stock price could have risen, the shares could have split and the broker changed several times.

Even though Revis said "he's not that fast to score," it appeared that Johnson, who dropped Ryan Fitzpatrick's pass at the Jets' 25, could have split Brodney Pool and Jim Leonhard.

The discovery of Lucy's bones was hugely significant to our understanding of human evolution - her skeleton shows she walked upright, suggesting that man could have split from ape ancestors much earlier than previously thought.

Mr. Amicone won a bitterly fought primary battle against State Assemblyman Michael J. Spano, who had vowed to stay on the ballot on two minor-party lines, which could have split the Republican vote.

We could've split up into 20 to 30 countries.

Wayne Rooney spoke of the ineffable boredom of life in an isolated five-star prison, John Terry made not the least miscalculation of his life when he elected himself as the spokesman for a dressing room he could hardly have split more profoundly had he driven a stake into the middle of the floor.

Could the couple have split because the 25-year-old New York Jets quarterback is saving himself for marriage?

We could as well have split the data in different ways and, e.g., used 90% or 50% of the data for training.

Could any character in Proust have split a playing card set edgeways to him at fifty yards?