It has fissures, which give off glinty sharp angles and spangles.
As a result, the employment relationship has "fissured" apart.
Over time, the league's ranks have fissured into the usual sects and denominations: rhyming riddlers, acrostic enigmatologists, and the like.
195 BC) of Han, engaged in a war to decide who would become hegemon of China, which had fissured into 18 kingdoms, each claiming allegiance to either Xiang Yu or Liu Bang.
It has hard, fissured, grey bark, and narrow elliptic or lanceolate leaves measuring 5 20 cm long by 0.6 1.2 cm wide with entire (straight) margins and acute tips.
But there are signs his iron fist has fissures.
Limestone has fissures and is soluble in water, therefore rivers have been able to carve deep, narrow valleys.
The rough grey bark has fissures, the stems and branches are finely hairy when young and become smooth with age.
If the mother has fissures or bleeding nipples, temporary discontinuation of breast-feeding may be recommended, although thermal treatment (pasteurization or microwaving) of expressed milk before feeding the infant may be a safe alternative.
It has always been fissured, but the recent rains have dramatically widened and deepened every weak spot on the surface.
When compared with body weight, the primate brain is larger than that of other terrestrial mammals, and it has a fissure unique to primates (the Calcarine sulcus) that separates the first and second visual areas on each side of the brain.
