Sentence examples for tiny splinters from inspiring English sources

The larvae, called wigglers, look like tiny splinters floating in water, and spend their time scooting around still, shallow puddles, diving for food and rising to the surface to breath.

This is Colette at her best (a succession of critics have fallen under her spell over the years, tumbling adjectives after each other in her praise): you can hear the crickets "sawing the dog-day into tiny splinters"; smell the "night-scented fragrance of the pines", or "the near-by fig tree spreading its odour of milk and flowering grass".

The results vary, from the tiny splinters of men in Turkey's tumultuous political atmosphere to the creepy continuity of North Korea.

There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things.

And from one tiny splinter... "The Swiss company agreed to stamp my name on the tweezers," Mr. LaMagna said.

A tiny splinter works itself into his palm and he claims to know exactly how Jesus must have felt on the Cross.

"There is a tiny splinter group … that believes you can do such things," he wrote in a letter to his brother Edgar.

Now (speaking of Texas, millionaires, and stupid, though not, unfortunately speaking of tiny splinter groups), the apparently leading candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination believes that the New Deal was a "failed set of ideas".

At the slightest provocation -- a mosquito bite, a mild sunburn, a tiny splinter -- the body mounts a hair-trigger defense, sending cells and natural chemicals to destroy dirt or germs and repair the damage.

By Kristen Radtke February 14, 2017 I've lived alone in many apartments in the past decade, from a tiny, splintering studio in Iowa crawling with millipedes to a massive, cheap prewar in Kentucky that leaked each time it rained.

I've lived alone in many apartments in the past decade, from a tiny, splintering studio in Iowa crawling with millipedes to a massive, cheap prewar in Kentucky that leaked each time it rained.