splinters in English

noun

1

a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, glass, or similar material broken off from a larger piece.

a splinter of ice

synonyms: sliver, shiver, chip, shard, fragment, piece, bit, shred, matchwood, flinders

verb

1

break or cause to break into small sharp fragments.

the soap box splintered

synonyms: shatter, break into tiny pieces, smash, fracture, split, crack, disintegrate, crumble, smash into smithereens

noun

• matchwood

noun

• sliver, shiver, chip, shard, fragment, piece, bit, shred, matchwood, flinders
• sliver

verb

• shatter, break into tiny pieces, smash, fracture, split, crack, disintegrate, crumble, smash into smithereens
• sliver
• secede, break away

Use "splinters" in a sentence

1. Cavings can be splinters, shards

2. Who cares if I get splinters in my ears?

3. As long as I don't get any splinters.

4. Near-misses rained shell splinters down on Sheffield.

5. And underneath the microscope there were splinters of glass.

6. The calf of Sa·marʹi·a will be reduced to splinters.

7. And we found splinters embedded deeply in the palm of his hand.

8. But, hey, I don' t want to check your trunk for splinters

9. The slit in the visor is narrow, but splinters can penetrate it.

10. The risk of getting splinters or other foot injuries is higher when the feet are so exposed .

11. Cavings can be splinters, shards, chunks, and various shapes of rock, usually spalling from shale sections that have become unstable

12. And I sliced the little splinters of wood with a broken shard of glass, constructed this little apartment.

13. It's had tacks in it, and splinters, and boards torn up, and places with no carpet on the floor. "

14. Yellow Basilicon Ointment traditional drawing ointment made to the original recipe, used for over a hundred years to remove splinters, and stings.

15. Topical Astringents can be used to help pull out splinters and tone the skin and can have a protective effect (thanks to the tannins present in many Astringents).

16. Basilicon Ointment Sometimes known as Yellow Basilicon Ointment, this preparation is helpful in drawing out splinters, thorns and similar foreign bodies lodged just below the surface of the skin

17. Cavings can be splinters, shards, chunks, and v Pieces of rock that came from the wellbore but that were not removed directly by the action of the drill bit

18. In the ancient herbals the crab apple was used as treatment for boils, abscesses, splinters, wounds, coughs, colds and a host of other ailments ranging from acne to kidney ailments.

19. 'Round and 'round Yeats's late cyclical and apocalyptic vision of history, most famously articulated in 'The Second Coming', is Analagous to Benjamin's 'conception of the present as now-time shot through with splinters of …

20. Upon detonation, each of these shells would release 900 incendiary-filled tubes in a 20° cone facing towards incoming aircraft; a bursting charge was then used to explode the shell itself so that more steel splinters were created, and then the tubes would ignite.

21. A 1000 lb bomb penetrated the armored deck just ahead of the forward turret; shell splinters detonated the ammunition magazine, which did tremendous damage to the bow of the ship and burnt out "A" turret; 112 men were killed and another 21 were injured.