Sentence examples for for shard from inspiring English sources

(b) SEM-EDS spectrum for shard shown in (a).

He's a clever magpie when it comes to looking around for shards to assemble his characters from.

But Julian had only ever picked at his plate, as if dissecting roadkill for shards of glass.

It's bitterly cold and we are scrabbling around for shards of thorny firewood to boil a kettle.

I'm looking for shards of a broken past that I can assemble, back home, into a mosaic of words.

The title track is Nonne Poppe's Scherben – the German word for "shards", describing a spasmodic musical prism of clinking little fragments.

"My father fell into a rice paddy, looking for shards, in his 80's," says Patricia Falk, the oldest of the couple's three children.

More often, they seem like stations on some looping, ragged pilgrimage, my wave hound's Wanderjahre — a long search through a fallen world for shards of a lost bliss.

The constant hunt for shards of evidence of Trump's "moderation" and "independence" is even more puzzling when you consider that the evidence to the contrary continues to be ignored.

I will hunt around, especially, for shards from the imagination of Philip Johnson, the youngest of the architects who led the Lincoln Center project and the one living member of the group.

Adam rightly criticizes Alex as shallow, but he's not exactly on a higher plane; whereas Alex seeks transcendence in a celebrity's inky scrawl, Adam hunts for "shards" of God in "six chosen letters" culled from the Torah.