Sentence examples for jagged splinters from inspiring English sources

My not-so-faded memories stood out like jagged splinters of glass, and as I flitted through them, Israel suddenly exclaimed, "You broke the matrix too!" I was momentarily surprised.

One eyewitness reported that the cars could be more life-threatening than ordinary vehicles, as bullets easily pierced the armour-plating, and the thick armoured glass broke into jagged splinters when struck.

Daniel Libeskind does the same thing for expressionism: in early 20th-century German paintings by Ludwig Kirchner rapidly moving, jagged shards splinter the world in a way that communicates anxiety.

His jagged white light splinters the stage.

Use fine-grain sandpaper to sand down the ladder and remove any jagged edges or splinters.

Jagged black-and-white splinters, stripes and optical distortions make looking difficult.

Topped out by the 968m-high Inaccessible Pinnacle, a splinter of jagged rock, the mountains have most recently served as an impromptu BMX park for world-renowned Red Bull rider and local Dunvegan lad Danny MacAskill.

The top layer of my nails started to peel and flake off, they splintered and became jagged.

Up close the stippled, jagged grass surface is annoyingly apparent, splintering the paintings into thousands of tiny pieces.

Describe it as splintered (or fibrous), sharp and jagged (hackly), bowl-shaped (conchoidal), or none of the above (uneven).

But when the 41-year-old Albanian brings an American visitor barely 20 yards from his front door to the dingy basement of a nearby building where an American sergeant is accused of sexually assaulting and then murdering his 11-year-old daughter, his politeness splinters, cracks and drops away in jagged pieces, and Shabiu finally sobs, propped against the filthy wall.