Sentence examples for on a splinter from inspiring English sources

Some prodigies seem to trade on a splinter skill — an ability in music that occupies their whole consciousness, leaving them virtually incompetent in all other areas.

It comes from James Thurber's satire, Bateman Comes Home, which he said was written after reading too many southern gothic novels: Old Nate Birge… was chewing on a splinter of wood and watching the moon come up lazily out of the old cemetery in which nine of his daughters were lying, only two of whom were dead.

On Tuesday a splinter group of developers are expected to launch a new version of bitcoin's blockchain — the technical term for the audit trail attached to each coin that allows it to be verified as a means of exchange.

The iteration on display at the Nokia Theater on Thursday night — a splinter wing of its best singers dubbed the Heads of State, with Mr. Brown, Mr. Gill and the effortlessly tender Ralph Tresvant — was promising and well edited, a union of old-school showmen conceding little to the years gone by.

On 22 March 1942, a splinter from a near miss by the perforated one of her boilers during the Second Battle of Sirte, and Havock was forced to make for Malta for repairs.

No one knows just how broad the shock waves from a Greek exit would be, but big American banks and consulting firms have also been doing a brisk business advising their corporate clients on how to prepare for a splintering of the euro zone.

In capturing the miscues of first love and shifting family dynamics, "Rosie and Skate" is as sharp as a splinter on the boardwalk.

The ships suffered heavy casualties; Riou was hit on the head by a splinter.

A similar protest occurred on October 30, 2011, when a splinter group from the Occupy Vancouver movement marched to the cathedral from the Vancouver Art Gallery.

You might step on them and get a splinter.

The TTP, which has established a presence in most urban centres, launched a strike on the main international airport in Karachi, the southern port city that is the country's commercial capital, shortly before the assault and more recently a huge bombing of a flag ceremony, claimed by a splinter group, on the western border with India.