Sentence examples for few splinters from inspiring English sources

With luck and work, scholars retrieve a few splinters, put them in a guessed-at order and turn on some lights.

He quickened his pace as he neared the end of his inspection, picking up a few splinters that had fallen from broken pallets onto the smooth concrete floor.

It appeared to be a casual pile of squid tempura interlaced with a few splinters of fried green stuff, but I took a knife to it and quartered it anyway.

Even though they are difficult to collect – the nuts must be pried out of their prickly casings – my brother and I eagerly spent time out there gathering up the nuts knowing that the end result would far out weigh a few splinters and pricks to our fingers.

"Even though there has been some long peace in Northern Ireland, we have seen a few splinters of troubles arising again recently as this year is the 100-year anniversary of the Easter uprising, so I wouldn't imagine it being seen on bar menus today".

A few splinter sects keep it up.

And although the Mormon church renounced polygamy in 1890, a few splinter groups still practise it.

Now only a few splinter groups remain active in the region.

"Everybody except for a few splinter groups wants this to happen," said Bob Callanan, a spokesman at the American Soybean Association.

Among these groups is a Libyan Muslim Brotherhood with ties to similar organizations in Egypt and Algeria, which is mainly moderate with a few radical splinters.

European jousters typically use lances with balsa-wood tips, which produce fewer dangerous splinters and deliver a less powerful hit.