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splintery

[ UK /splˈɪntəɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈspɫɪntɝi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces
  2. resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points
    a rough splintery floor of old pine boards

How To Use splintery In A Sentence

  • Rite, an — I swattid him rite when — when teh clok struk wun, an he runned down, hikery — I meen ripperty splintery dok, he tored teh papur. If u mad now… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • Her skin and hair were dry and uncared for, but her eyes had the glittery, splintery look of shattered mirrors. BARN BLIND
  • Then Nick's arms came around her and they were off across the splintery wooden floor. THE WHITE DOVE
  • The true cinchona barks, containing quinine, quinidine, and cinchonine, are distinguished from the false by their splintery-fibrous texture, the latter being pre-eminently corky. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
  • Inside the floors are splintery and rusty fans clank noisily above our heads.
  • a rough splintery floor of old pine boards
  • Two ill-glued legs fell off it, and the rest crumpled to splintery matchwood. THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA
  • At the near end of the pond was a splintery wooden dock.
  • Rite, an — I swattid him rite when — when teh clok struk wun, an he runned down, hikery — I meen ripperty splintery dok, he tored teh papur. If u mad now… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • All three versions combine the joy of dry, splintery pastry with the joy of chewy, indigestible glop.
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