Sentence examples for splinters of wood from inspiring English sources

Splintery fracture is breakage into elongated fragments like splinters of wood, while hackly fracture is breakage along jagged surfaces.

But then he raised the two splinters of wood, one in each massive fist, in an unambiguous gesture of triumph.

Mrs Drake said that there were plans afoot to sell splinters of wood taken from the bridge as souvenirs.

He prepares his piano by inserting between its strings various objects, screws, splinters of wood, etc. Nothing but prepared string are played in his compositions.

But where we stood, a broad expanse had been laid bare, the splinters of wood still so fresh they were pungent, crisscrossed by deep pools of black, boggy water.

In honor of each place, she made site-specific work by bringing the site, in the form of raw material associated with it, like dirt, seeds, feathers, stones and splinters of wood, into her studio and working on it there.

She whipped out a sheer silk stocking and a splinter of wood, and squeeee-ran the splinter down the stocking.

The heat and violence are history, seen now as a warped and tarnished silver plate, the singed pages of a picture book or a charred splinter of wood.

The sound of metal on metal, the thud of the quintain and splinter of wood ring out much as they would have done 800 years ago.

About 100 people watched from the streets just after sunrise as crews flattened the house with a backhoe and a logging crane, the morning silence broken by the roar of equipment and the splintering of wood.

Davis-Goff, a baronet's daughter born in Ireland, can go on with ease about a gooseberry fool, game left to hang so long it is nearly rotten, or a "barmbrack," a Halloween cake in which is hidden, for predictive purposes, a wedding ring, a sixpenny piece and a splinter of wood.