Sentence examples for some shreds from inspiring English sources

Cameron has secured his reforms and thrown some shreds of red meat to his backbenches.

That would give them a way of returning on their terms and with at least some shreds of dignity.

Drawing deeply on his cigarette, he looked down through the smoke at the table and brushed away some shreds of tobacco.

And that would allow Mr Putin, shortly before his own re-election bid, to rescue some shreds of success from a policy towards Chechnya that so far has failed.

From some shreds of European clothes, he proved that a skeleton dug up in Bolivia was neither Butch Cassidy nor the Sundance Kid, as thought, but a German prospector called Zimmerman.

An eight-foot-high kinetic sculpture demonstrates the life cycle of a dollar bill as it travels from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing through the economy until it is ultimately shredded (you can even grab some shreds).

I had to preserve some shred of dignity.

Perhaps it was some shred of shame or morality, something beyond her control.

The officers found nothing incriminating, and his J.P. Morgan I.D. gave him "some shred of credibility".

I wasn't allowed to leave with some shred of dignity and some pride in my career".

"You can make a decision whether to go out with some shred of dignity or say these irresponsible, reckless things".