Sentence examples for splintering with from inspiring English sources

"Big Train," an ambitious long-form composition dedicated to the place of the train in black American culture, suffers from a bad case of splintering, with all sorts of ideas breaking off from the whole.

Since then, support for the hard-line immigration policy has been splintering, with the staunchest supporters of the administration standing by the child separation policy — but others, even groups who have historically supported the president, vocally opposing the policy.

The violence came as the movement to force Mr. Ruiz to resign seemed to be splintering, with a teachers union whose walkout set off the civil unrest five months ago was close to an agreement with the government to return to classes.

Many houses stood vacant peeling and splintered, with shattered windows.

And the financial industry lobby seemed splintered, with small community banks happily exempted.

Near my nose, one of the wooden pallets splintered with a crack like a pistol shot.

Baroque and contemporary styles united and splintered with agile and beguiling economy.

Eventually, the Black Muslims splintered, with the fiery Louis Farrakhan leading the faction favoring racial separatism.

After losing his job, Kweku abandons them all and returns to Ghana; when the book opens, the family has splintered, with no one in regular communication.

Then the heavy door closes, with the press and the people on the other side of it, and the air splinters with profanity.

And since I've never been one to confront so much as a splinter with a modicum of dignity, I was writhing in agony.