Splinter

//ˈsplɪn.tɚ//

"Splinter" in a Sentence (17 examples)

I can't get this splinter out of my finger.

I ran a splinter into my finger.

Tom tried to get the splinter out of Mary's finger.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

Tom had a splinter in his finger, so he asked Mary to help him get it out.

I have a splinter in the palm of my hand.

Tom removed the splinter from Mary's finger.

The back of Tom's right hand was injured by a splinter of glass.

There was once a bundle of matches, who were all extremely proud of their high descent, for their genealogical tree, that is to say, the tall fir-tree, from which each of them was a splinter, had been a tree of great antiquity, and distinguished by his height from all the other trees of the forest.

A splinter of wood, barely visible to the naked eye, caused a very painful infection in one of Tom's fingers.

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The tall tree splintered during the storm.

It was all coming at her now: the fatigue and the fever; pieces of her lung splintering and mixing with her throwup; the calcifications on her bones, where the disease had already spread.

His third kick splintered the door.

After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and […] abandoned the field to the enemy.

The government splintered when the coalition members could not agree.

The unpopular new policies splintered the company.

it will be very hard for Me to Splinter up the broken confuséd Pieces of it.

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