Sentence examples for couple of splinters from inspiring English sources

You get a couple of splinters here and there," Scott said, using an old metaphor for the team bench.

He was pointing to empty spaces — and a barber pole and a couple of chairs — in a landscape of splinters and metal rubble.

And even Mr. Cowherd broke out a couple of times, working up to some splintered, rolling phrases — elliptical, determinedly peaceful, but with teeth.

There are plenty of splinters here.

Be cautious of splinters.

This will reduce the possibility of splinters.

Meanwhile, one splinter group of a couple of hundred students had been doing laps of the Supreme Court.

"It's gotten ugly in just a couple of months," said one person with ties to the splintering YankeeNets group and to the negotiations to sell the team, speaking on condition of anonymity.

[The New York Times] Writing on CNN's site, political commentator Sally Kohn predicted "a couple of key shifts" in the movement, including "clusters of leaders" and splinter groups.

As moisture leaves your plants, the press will become loose, so re-tighten it every couple of days to keep pressure.. Sand the wood to avoid getting splinters.

"Junk Magic" includes some splintered pianism, but here a grand piano served as furniture, supporting an array of effects pedals and sheltering a couple of laptop computers.