Sentence examples for shard a from inspiring English sources

Shortly after the topping-out ceremony for the Shard, a squib appeared in Private Eye.

Each facet forms a shard, a plane of glass gently inclined inwards, rising towards the top.

It sees how our existence is a tiny shard, a infinitesimal fragment thrown out by an impossibly distant cosmic detonation.

STILL under construction, the Shard, a 72-storey skyscraper near London Bridge measuring 310 metres, is already the most visible building in the capital.

In another incident close to the Shard, a drone flying at 1,500 metres came within 20 metres of an Airbus A320 on its descent into Heathrow.

Qatar owns lucrative chunks of Britain such as the Shard, a big portion of Sainsbury's and a slice of the London Stock Exchange.

Grasping for words at a press conference, he said it would look like a "… a shard … a shard of crystal".

As the song begins, Usher inspects the smoking ruins and imagines a woman in a shard of a broken mirror.

When Renzo Piano casually described his design for London Bridge Tower in a press conference as "a shard … a shard of crystal," he must have had little idea what his poetic aside would unleash.

For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring.

A nun reportedly brought him a shard of a bone from Saint Catherine and he was miraculously healed.