The word 'slivers' is correct and can be used in written English
It can be used to refer to a narrow, thin piece of something (usually longer than it is wide). For example: "She scraped off some cheese slivers from the block."
Blanched leafy greens are transformed by a libation of sizzling oil over slivers of ginger and spring onion, and a dash of good soy sauce.
Once in the mountains, we were immediately careering along slivers of swerving tarmac under a crystal-blue sky.
Not only are those delicate slivers fatty and possibly difficult to cut, but their complex flavours should be allowed their full expression.
This allows a tower to serve many users better by divvying up the available radio frequency into individually allocated slivers, or subchannels.
Digital television is often compared to publishing: channels will be sliced into wafer-thin thematic slivers, each backed by advertising to the narrowly targeted demographic groups they supply.
Even in muscular games such as football and rugby (pictured above), they are seeing slivers of the action, the glory and the financial rewards.In February a lap taken at 196mph gained Danica Patrick a pole position in part of the NASCAR Sprint Cup series the first woman to do so, in a sport dominated by men.
But America's tabloid titans appeal only to narrow slivers of the country ("The O'Reilly Factor" reaches 2.5m people in a country of 300m).
Worse, public institutions are again being politicised.There are some slivers of good news.
Estonia has given up any claim to these slivers of land, now mainly filled with Russians, but the Kremlin will not ratify the border treaty.Lithuania's position is different.
As a control, they built similar batteries using slivers of copper.The wooden battery was not perfect.
