slivers in English

noun
1
a small, thin, narrow piece of something cut or split off a larger piece.
a sliver of cheese
verb
1
cut or break (something) into small, thin, narrow pieces.
slivered almonds

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1. Serve with slivers of warm pitta bread.

2. Tuck slivers of butter and slices of garlic into Artichoke leaves

3. Three thousand separate, translucent, digital slivers instead of the 1000 I thought it would be.

4. The basic form begins with a woven mesh of fine bamboo slivers.

5. FBOs shall remove slivers right after cutting to avoid burned pieces in the final cooked product.

6. The basalt slivers maintained a near-horizontal attitude while adjacent sedimentary rocks were folded and faulted.

7. Street lights were starting to come on in the distance, crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange.

8. Wax-producing glands under their Abdomens slowly secrete slivers of wax about the size of a pinhead.

9. Contrary to traditions, connoisseurs of fine gourmet foods have begun to serve Blinis with slivers or medallions of smoked salmon.

10. To make Caramelized onions, start by removing the onion's skin and cutting the onions into thin slivers

11. 25 Street lights were starting to come on in the distance, crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange.

12. Blanched almonds can be cut into slivers, which add an attractive texture to yogurt, ice cream, and other treats

13. What you see above is pork porridge. It features Chinese doughnuts, beansprouts, pork intestine stuffed with peppery pork mince, sliced pork heart, stomach slivers and blood pudding.

14. ‘The main slivers of Devonian rocks found within the fault zone in the Rhynie area are sandstones and Andesite in the Rhyme block and the Longcroft Tuffs in the Windyfield block.’ ‘The volcanic strata consist of sheet-like flows of Andesite, dacite, basalts, and trachybasalts that are …

15. 1/ 00 Severing continuous filaments or long fibres, e.g. stapling 1/ 02 . to form staple fibres not delivered in strand form 1/ 04 . . by cutting 1/ 06 . Converting tows to slivers or yarns, e.g. in direct spinning (drafting arrangements, twisting arrangements D 01 H) 1/ 08 . . by stretching or abrading 1/ 10 . . by cutting

16. Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. And that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. In the end, I'll look back on my life, and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces. Sarah Dessen