Sentence examples for sliver on from inspiring English sources

Cut the chilli into very thin slices and put a sliver on each piece of fish.

That left the sliver on the corner lot, running 100 feet north on Lexington.

The smallest country in mainland Africa, a sliver on the west coast with a population of 1.8m, is trying to turn itself into an offshore financial centre.

The hole has been lengthened to 439 yards and plays directly into the prevailing wind, and the fairway appears to be a sliver on the horizon.

In any event, they argue, a major release of plutonium would require an accident so severe that the additional health effects would amount to a "sliver on top of a mountaintop".

He even has a designated sliver on a hospital pie chart that tracks "door to balloon time" — how long it takes to get a heart attack patient to the cardiac catheterization lab for an angioplasty.

But even veteran economists admit the intensity of the focus on a sliver of one month's worth of data is a bit much.

It was one night, on one sliver of earth.

Fort Tiracol Heritage Hotel, Tiracol, Pernem Standing on a sliver of land on the Maharashtra side of the Tiracol river, this gloriously isolated 16th-century Portuguese fort offers stunning views.

Meanwhile, a sign for Yahoo, the Internet company, has gone up nearby on a sliver of land on the north side of Houston Street at Mulberry Street, just outside the district.

The bird lady's home was an old farmhouse situated on a sliver of bucolic land, on the outskirts of encroaching surburbia.