How To Use Splinters In A Sentence
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Armed with splinters of steel, two ant-sized men dare the formidable mysteries of a termitary.
The Raid on the Termites
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While not hefty, this double bill offers two sharp little splinters of wit.
Times, Sunday Times
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The name refers to the fact that splinters of cannel can be burnt like a candle.
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While not hefty, this double bill offers two sharp little splinters of wit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today, Sam is part of the small cadre of "splinters" the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of PT Boaters who are working to preserve their parents 'legacy.
On VJ Day, New Generations Remember
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A short distance away were many ladies and gentlemen who had been wounded by splinters of wood or fragments of iron.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I finally managed to scramble down, my legs were all aquiver, and my palms were studded with splinters.
The Dark Side of Innocence
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Long splinters of wood lay exposed on the surface.
Times, Sunday Times
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All three were being treated for possible glass splinters in the face.
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They often produce matchboxes or pill bottles with fluff, splinters and other debris that they insist are specimens that they have caught.
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Magistrate from his subordinates, and this fence, being made of long splinters of wood placed diagonally, was called _cancellus_, from its likeness to network, the regular Latin word for a net being casses, and the diminutive cancellus [177].
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
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So, any ephemera from the creation of that story about cranky old Hagar comprise the literary world's version of splinters from the cross.
CanLit
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You had to be careful when you stepped out of the bath otherwise you were liable to get splinters in your feet.
Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
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Even if we were covered with blood, even if we had glass splinters stuck in the shoulders and arms, we just couldn't feel anything.
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The armoured vehicle is protected against 14.5 mm heavy machine gun rounds and artillery splinters.
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Let us have it out, and then I'll kiss the place to make it well as I used to do when I took the splinters from the fingers you are pricking so unmercifully, said the doctor, anxious to relieve his pet patient as soon as possible.
Rose in Bloom
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There was also some evidence of surgical stitching, which probably gave the impression of splinters.
AFTERMATH
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Each time it slammed into him there were splinters of glass raining down on him.
The Sun
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Some residents had complained about sharp wood splinters and nails encroaching upon the children's play area in the park.
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Splinters and jagged spikes of wood lanced into the air, and a faint coat of dust had comfortably settled over the wreckage.
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Like lightning, the alligator opens its mouth and snaps it shut just as the log swings by, reducing it to splinters.
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Removing the splinters from the wound was a long and painful process.
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The boy supped and brandished the weapons and in the process broke them all to shivers and splinters.
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Her folks warn't nowhar ter be seen, but I found part of thar canoeboat, smashed ter splinters, an '
'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
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A great length of the brattice is in splinters, we nearly lost a mangonel over the edge when the parapet went, but we managed to haul it in over the embrasure.
A River So Long
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While not hefty, this double bill offers two sharp little splinters of wit.
Times, Sunday Times
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One manner not noted is rubbing the ends of your sticks together to get rid of splinters, which is apparently an insult to the restaurant or host that you think their chopsticks are cheap and splinter-prone.
Bad table manners Japanese just can’t break
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The broomstick snapped into five pieces, splinters and slivers flying everywhere.
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Splinters pierced his porcelain fingertips, such terrible reminders to what had happened only hours before.
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Their room was filled with glass shards and wood splinters.
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Enjoying the sun's warmth we followed a thin channel that splinters off the billabong.
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For a long while, long after the creature had hurtled away in shearing splinters of radiance, he sat there, legs folded under him in the blaze of 118-degree heat, thinking alternately: This is working, and I am losing my mind.
The Silence
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The mirror broke into splinters.
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Sharp metal splinters from old farm contraptions clawed at their clothes and crinolines stacked like fish traps.
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For a few moments, splinters and pieces of wood rained on the earth.
Christianity Today
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For a few moments, splinters and pieces of wood rained on the earth.
Christianity Today
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A sharp inward breath as splinters from the wall behind and to his right whizzed past his ears as the explosive bark of the gun nearly deafened him.
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Hearing the monitor shatter completely upon the hardwood floor brought some satisfaction, but seeing the tiny, prismatic splinters glittering on the floor, so like my heart at the moment, brought tears to my eyes once more.
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The tip was still there, but the hard keratin around the outer curve was a mess of splinters and fragments.
THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
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You had to be careful when you stepped out of the bath otherwise you were liable to get splinters in your feet.
Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
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The very meaning of the term splinters depending upon which party one chooses to examine and some might be quite leery about the use of it.
Irish Blogs
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‘Where windows have been knocked out there are splinters of glass all over our property,’ added Mr Lister.
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Outside, power lines were dragging in pools of rainwater and in the hotel corridors solid wood doors lay in splinters.
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Long splinters of wood lay exposed on the surface.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wore his makeshift plectra to splinters, and his nails raw, but he made music.
COUP D'ETAT
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I wondered if they ever got splinters in their tongues from licking the wooden bowls clean.
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I yelled and he hurled himself to the side as the gun came up and I dodged frantically as the flintlock flared and filled the room with noise and smoke and something smashed splinters from the doorframe behind my head.
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When traveling to subtropical or tropical regions, there is a risk for development a rare fungal infection known as mycetoma when injury from thorns or splinters occur.
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True, the bottle of T.C.P. antiseptic (slightly to the right) is a reminder of splinters, stubbed toes, barnacle cuts from the jetty, and minor sailing accidents but fortunately nobody seems ever to have been seriously injured; never to my knowledge bitten by a snake or poisonous spider, and the only local indigenous wildlife I recall are possums, kookaburras, and a lone echidna which put in an appearance in about 1976.
Archive 2009-04-01
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A short distance away were many ladies and gentlemen who had been wounded by splinters of wood or fragments of iron.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yes | No | Report from willkillsdeer wrote 39 weeks 3 days ago hunting public land my buddys dad was leaning agaist a tree wearing a full orange body suit when some idiot put five slugs into the tree thankfuly he wasn't hurt other than some splinters from the tree they never found out who done it now that is scary
What is your greatest fear while in the woods?
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Lines as corny as this can have someone in the audience break into laughter, and the thin crust of magic that keeps the film afloat will fall into splinters.
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Its appearance was that of a wooden skeleton except with scraggly twigs and splinters jutting out from its joints and face.
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A short distance away were many ladies and gentlemen who had been wounded by splinters of wood or fragments of iron.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bamboo pillars the size of buildings hung above, forming a ceiling over the trail and casting a green shadow over the floor's unstable mulch of wood splinters - as if the bamboo had suddenly shot up beneath a forest of pine trees and gingkoes, reducing them to smithereens.
The Temple News
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Removing the splinters from the wound was a long and painful process.
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His right eye has a slight defect due to being pierced by minute splinters of glass.
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In addition to the aforementioned bone splinters of the skilled Japanese swordsman, Muldrow uses the skins of the goats that gore him with their horns.
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As the door closed behind me there was a shot and the wood from the door exploded into a few dozen splinters that pierced the back of my neck.
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There was also some evidence of surgical stitching, which probably gave the impression of splinters.
AFTERMATH
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Mindful of the broken glass splinters, Fess reached into the car and opened the door from the inside.
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It rained of course - sheets of icy splinters, wind in breath-robbing gusts - but the pioneering spirit soon takes over and you learn to fish in the lulls between outbursts, using the small yellow-tails as bait to catch a juicy snapper.
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Each time it slammed into him there were splinters of glass raining down on him.
The Sun
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Splinters were flung in every direction, some aflame, becoming miniature meteors as they ignited in the dry air.
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The roar of breakers from the distant beach crushed imaginary shipwrecks to splinters.
Banano's Bar
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Each time it slammed into him there were splinters of glass raining down on him.
The Sun
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You had to be careful when you stepped out of the bath otherwise you were liable to get splinters in your feet.
Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
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The tip was still there, but the hard keratin around the outer curve was a mess of splinters and fragments.
THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
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Finally, rub down the wood to remove the splinters, give it a thin wash of acrylic paint and brush on the clear preservative.
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Rusting old loco motives; a water tower, chipped by bomb-splinters; a level crossing; pithead gear; a station sign.
DISPLACED PERSON
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Long splinters of wood lay exposed on the surface.
Times, Sunday Times
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He walked restlessly about the untenanted rooms, stopping strange noises in windows and doors by jamming splinters of wood into the casements and crevices, and pressing together the leadwork of the quarries where it had become loosened from the glass.
The Return of the Native
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a fierce assault until the frail structure toppled to the ground in splinters.
CHAPTER IV
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It tipped over backwards and smashed a frosted window to pieces, one of which glass splinters landed near me.
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I was covered in splinters and glass.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then the warriors, returning, gave proof that they had indeed done something more than kick the wind, for they were covered with blood, and their legs were stuck full of large pines, with here and there an oak or hemlock, for the fight had been in a forest; so that they had been as much troubled as men would be with thistles, nettles, and pine splinters, which is truly often a great trouble.
Algonquin Legends of New England
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The entire structure seemed ready to collapse into a sea of glass shards and splinters.
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I felt especially sympathetic because my son just got a lot of splinters in his hand moving some fencing material around at work.
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I reached around in the darkness, fingers flinching from the prickliness of fibreglass insulation and splinters in the attic's rough, wooden beams.
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Many a traitor hand now drew forth its dagger, and the intemperate Badenoch, drunk with choler and mad ambition, snatching a sword from one of his accomplices, made another violent plunge at Wallace, but its metal flew in splinters on the guard-stroke of the regent, and left Badenoch at his mercy.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Removing the splinters from the wound was a long and painful process.
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I was covered in splinters and glass.
Times, Sunday Times
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She looked down at her hands, bloody from the myriad of wood splinters and glass shards that had imbedded themselves in her skin.
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The poetic voice progressively splinters into cacophony, in which the gender distinctions progressively collapse.
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The flying vehicle of ours crashed through the roadblock, sending splinters and pieces of wood whistling all over the place.
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Of her one had the impression that if she lay down on her back she could not roll over without the aid of block-and-tackle; of Ahuna one's impression was that the tooth - pickedness of him would shatter to splinters if one bumped into him.
SHIN-BONES
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Fortunately, the pipe was sturdy enough as she knocked it against the hard clay, sending its splinters flew past her.
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While not hefty, this double bill offers two sharp little splinters of wit.
Times, Sunday Times
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While not hefty, this double bill offers two sharp little splinters of wit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some residents had complained about sharp wood splinters and nails encroaching upon the children's play area in the park.
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Long splinters of wood lay exposed on the surface.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though the immune system is elegant — distinguishing between the organs, blood, tissues and cells that are part of the "self" and outside invaders such as splinters, dust or germs — it isn't perfect.
A Delicate Balance
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For a few moments, splinters and pieces of wood rained on the earth.
Christianity Today
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Their bunker was ripped to pieces and splinters of wood were sent sky-high.
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There is one bank and a pyramid about 2 feet tall held together by an infinite amount of splinters and you will be taking some home with you whether you like it or not.
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Not when you were carried to the orlop deck full of king-sized splinters from cannonballs smashing through wooden hulls, I imagine.
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I was covered in splinters and glass.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rusting old loco motives; a water tower, chipped by bomb-splinters; a level crossing; pithead gear; a station sign.
DISPLACED PERSON
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A US doctor told her she needed a serious operation to reshape her shoulder and remove splinters of bone from her back.
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Each time it slammed into him there were splinters of glass raining down on him.
The Sun
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There was a loud crunch as the plank split in two down the center, the sharp splinters flying away from the impact point and back towards the man.
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Some of these were smashed into splinters by end-on collisions with cord-wood; others had dodged the floatage and were landed high on the beach.
Tides of Barnegat
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It tipped over backwards and smashed a frosted window to pieces, one of which glass splinters landed near me.
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Finally, rub down the wood to remove the splinters, give it a thin wash of acrylic paint and brush on the clear preservative.
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They have another kind of corslet, made like the corsets of our ladies, of splinters of hard wood interlaced with nettle twine.
Narrative of a voyage to the northwest coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814; or, The first American settlement of the Pacific
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I was covered in splinters and glass.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were some splinters of wood in a glass case, the clear surface clouded with age.
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And before us fled Indian and Tory, yager and renegade, Greens, Rangers, Highlanders, officers galloping madly, baggage-wagons smashed, horses down, camp trampled to tatters and splinters as the vengeance of Tryon County passed in a tornado of fury that cleansed the land forever of Walter Butler and his demons of the
The Reckoning
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There were some splinters of wood in a glass case, the clear surface clouded with age.
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Debris from the disintegrating vessel rained into the trees, crushing splinters.
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There among the splinters of wood and streetlit shards of glass was a wooden block with painted letters on its faces.
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How could quasi-independent microscopic cells collaborate to secrete a million glassy splinters and construct such an intricate and beautiful lattice?
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He landed maladroitly, sweat dripping from his brow as the safe crashed to the wooden floor, throwing up splinters.
Mistborn
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A short distance away were many ladies and gentlemen who had been wounded by splinters of wood or fragments of iron.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then it chose to throw splinters of wood and what looked like pieces of plastic at us.
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You had to be careful when you stepped out of the bath otherwise you were liable to get splinters in your feet.
Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
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The wooden floors were rough (not having ever been sanded), often giving the boy splinters.
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For a few moments, splinters and pieces of wood rained on the earth.
Christianity Today
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Its appearance was that of a wooden skeleton except with scraggly twigs and splinters jutting out from its joints and face.
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Hicks splinters his story into little shards as he jumps artily backward and forward in time.
A Blue Christmas
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The sudden thought that he didn't want to see her again was so sharp that she dropped the glass in her hand and spent the next few minutes picking up the splinters while Mijnheer Beek, in the prosiest of Dutch, told her off for being careless.
Not Once But Twice
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She found herself laying on the broken mast of the ship, with white sails and splinters of wood floating lazily around her.
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Finally, rub down the wood to remove the splinters, give it a thin wash of acrylic paint and brush on the clear preservative.
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The armoured vehicle is protected against 14.5 mm heavy machine gun rounds and artillery splinters.
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Patrick recalls much of what followed, he was temporarily blinded from glass splinters as he searched and shouted for his friend but could not find him.
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It cracked against my skull, ricocheting me into some decrepit shelving holding water damaged pornography, destroying it in a jumble of splinters and dust.
