Sentence examples for small shreds from inspiring English sources

The puzzling way things have been going for Mussina led him to dissect the start for small shreds of optimism.

"When you get down to very small shreds, then the numbers start to eat you," he said.

A child picked from the crowd threw golden pixie dust up at the tree (it was actually only small shreds of golden paper as you could see afterwards when it lay on the ground, but as it rose through the sky it seemed to multiply and shimmer in a way that made the crowd gasp. That's the magic of Disney).

The attack was sudden and ferocious and when it was over in a matter of seconds the water around us was greasy with small shreds of tuna flesh and stained with ribbons of blood.

Instead he sat in his chair ripping sheets of notepaper into small shreds and dropping them on the floor.

There are still small shreds of goodness left out there, tiny flecks of joy and kindness still buried amid the rubble of our daily lives.

Her hands stuffed with wads of paper, Ms. Snider was feeding a small shredding machine mounted on a plastic wastebasket.

I had a small shred of hope but, in my heart of hearts, I knew that he was gone".

"I had a small shred of hope but, in my heart of hearts, I knew that he was gone," one of the soldier's mothers said.

But the pace of his prose, which is sonorous and blurry with Storyville grime — "And in that suddenly created solitude he was left with only the mute memory they shared," and so on — obscures the lines of Muldoon's story, his transformation into a person willing to barter his own future for a small shred of dignity.

Augustine's goal is not so much to understand the Trinity and communicate this to others, but rather to say some things that will deliver a small shred of understanding, which may entice the reader to pursue the experience of God (434 7 [XV.6.50-1]).