Sentence examples for splinters by from inspiring English sources

"Fire in Babylon," by Stevan Riley, and "Splinters," by Adam Pesce, are both stories of third-world athletes tackling commercial, first-world sports.

The steep slopes facing the walls are littered with shattered boulders and trees blown to splinters by the artillery and airstrikes with which the soldiers have fought back.

William Bradford's "Sealers Crushed by Icebergs" (1866) provides an almost documentary account of things gone bad, with one boat reduced to splinters by the ice while another in the distance fares no better with the element of fire.

If the Bard were alive today, his histrionic melodramas would've made him the fattest cat in Mumbai, his couch worn to splinters by the legions of actresses he'd have cast for his ridiculous scripts.

Even his breakout movie, "Funny Games" (1997), in which a couple of psychopaths in tennis whites terrorize and then expunge a middle-class family on the banks of a placid lake, made half the audience run howling from the theatre and the other half sit and wonder how, and why, it was being reduced to emotional splinters by a film that showed so little letting of actual blood.

The Endurance ended up trapped and crushed to splinters by ice floes.

Drew Shiflett's free-standing structures of paper and glue are like furniture made splinter by splinter.

Right after his faith, Jesse believes in old barns, and knows these barns, splinter by splinter.

But in a country splintered by partisanship and race, it may have consequences.

(4) Splinter by Gary Numan is released on 14 October on Cooking Vinyl.

In 1636 they set their sights on a China splintered by civil war.