Sentence examples for fragmentary of from inspiring English sources

But every item has been customized to carry evidence, however fragmentary, of the artists' pasts.

A mere handful of specimens, some fragmentary, of inlaid white porcelain have survived.

At least 23 votive statues (some fragmentary) of this royal favourite are known, exhibiting many different forms.

The large number of fragmentary specimens of exuviae allows an almost complete description of the external morphology of the animal.

The postoral prosomal appendages are known only from a single coxa of appendage IV or V and a number of fragmentary specimens of appendage VI.

Given the fragmentary nature of many of these archaeological specimens, some of the data were missing from the initial database.

Defining preservation of shape was often difficult due to the fragmentary state of many of the objects.

At first, the C.I.A. had only fragmentary identifications of some of those who would be attending the meeting.

The discovery of two fragmentary specimens of fish from about 420 million years ago in the Late Silurian shed light on the origin of the osteichthyans (bony fish).

That's the conclusion from an analysis of the fragmentary remains of an ancient leg bone unearthed on Canada's Ellesmere Island, which lies just west of northern Greenland.

This assignment was made tentatively because of the fragmentary preservation of the A. mckillopi holotype (QMF 2316).