Sentence examples for slivers of plastic from inspiring English sources

"I had racked up student loans, and throughout college and beyond, I'd swiftly turned every credit card application into those magical slivers of plastic that allowed me to pay for daily necessities," she wrote.

He unscrewed the mount, and a little sliver of plastic fell onto the pavement.

His company has turned the music industry on its head and made a sliver of plastic and chrome one of the most desirable consumer items on the planet.

The keyboard and mouse come with a 1.1 Bluetooth transceiver, a thumb-size sliver of plastic tipped with a flashing blue light.

There are exposed screw heads on the door panels; the rattly, rough diesel engine turns any unoccupied chairs into leather-covered vibraphones; and there are horrid slivers of orangey plastic wood on either side of the central console (but nowhere else).

Eventually, he found his target: a square sliver of black plastic called a baseband processor, the chip that limited the carriers with which it could work.

This went wrong because I messed up the scale and ended up with a microscopic sliver of blue plastic with no information on it at all.

Recently, it came to his attention that a fifteen-year-old entrepreneur in County Kildare had started a company called Rosso Solini, which sells slivers of red polymer plastic that adhere to the bottoms of your shoes: "Transform your high-heelers into a designer fashion statement in less than four minutes!" Louboutin has approached the news mostly with resignation.

You may be able to see slivers of glass or plastic underneath.

Bands that followed Nine Inch Nails grew accustomed to finding the stage demolished and littered with slivers of white and black plastic — the remains of a keyboard Reznor had shattered with a microphone stand.

These mytho-feminist super-beings, sometimes powered by motorcycle feet, inhabit an Afro-futuristic world that's fleshed out in paint and embellished with plastic pearls, slivers of wood-grain-printed adhesive, and glittery but violent bursts of color.