Sentence examples for sliver from from inspiring English sources

That would be good if Immigration and Customs Enforcement were carefully extracting the dangerous criminal sliver from a population of 12 million illegal immigrants.

Any scramble to "realize" a freshly found sliver from Mozart's quill — which is to say, to bring it to exploitable condition — will almost certainly exceed what is ultimately heard.

Types of adzes, fishhooks, and certain ornaments recur, including reel-shaped necklace units and pendants of whale teeth, unshaped or shaped by carving a sliver from the lower end.

A Little Bit of Soap - De La Soul Much more than a skit, this sliver from their classic Three Feet High and Rising album incorporated a plea for personal hygiene and a dig at Right Guard with a chance to sample the Marvells' soul gem of the same name.

In 1999, the Briarwood Organization took a chance by building 40 two-family homes between Beach 59th and 61st Streets for a project called Waters Edge -- a sliver from the long-dormant, rubble-strewn, 308-acre Arverne Urban Renewal Area that dominates the Rockaways' central corridor.

b Bonding sliver from the Si using the treated PDMS.

The loans issued often comprise many tiny slivers from different lenders.

Villeda took multiple slivers from about 40 mice and then stained them with a dye that binds to newborn neurons.

Mike cuts a few slivers from the loin and passes them around; a ceremonial tasting of the uncooked animal is, he explains, "a butcher's privilege".

So Ms. Kors reluctantly sliced thin slivers from the lipsticks she had left, wrapped them in wax paper and sent them to New York.

Then, the ceremony began: women and children lined up, splashing their faces with brown water from a porcelain bowl, eating cola-nut slivers from the blade of a machete proffered by a priest, then lowered their foreheads to be anointed with a gooey clear substance.