Sentence examples for sliver of paper from inspiring English sources

From the day that I first tucked that sliver of paper into my mother's change purse, she and I wrote each other clandestine notes.

But shortly after his first fruitless attempt to pass the fort's gates, he lifted up a small picture of his mother and watched as a sliver of paper spiraled down from the frame.

Writing on her group's blog last week, Ms. Geller posted a reader's photograph showing that one of those ads, at the Hastings-on-Hudson train station, was torn down leaving only a tiny sliver of paper — on which someone had scrawled: "Countless acts of terrorism and violence have been committed by Christian extremists.

Although one competition regulator reckons there is a now just a "sliver of paper" between the EU and American approaches, the extra scrutiny given to the Nokia/Navteq and Tom Tom/Tele Atlas mergers suggests the EU is still cautious.Differences in the treatment of dominant firms, especially in fast-changing high-tech industries, also remain and are if anything more plain.

Fold the remaining sliver of paper at the bottom up (you can make it white if you want).

I can find no good explanation why Sachiko Abe sits, like a human paper shredder in a pristine white dress, snipping tiny slivers of paper all day every day at the A Foundation gallery.

Among the most stunning pages of this book are the three poems in Czech written by the 20-year-old girl on slivers of paper, somehow saved by Kulka's father.

You might also witness mistakes and modifications; a few drawings here are stained with correction fluid, and others are patched with slivers of paper where the artist wanted to change bigger things.

"Those 6 eyes or 16 or 60 eyes are all looking at a little piece of paper that might be hanging by one corner or two corners," Mr. Nicholson replied, referring to the status of the punched-out slivers of paper, known as chads, on each ballot over which the election workers are deliberating.

As you cut, little slivers of paper will get lodged in the pages.

Make a paper or cardboard circle for the spider's body and cut slivers of paper for legs.