How To Use Splintering In A Sentence
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There were no windows at all, and only one splintering wooden door.
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She threw it down the path, the tip splintering into sparks.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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A lightning-fast, skilful and occasionally violent hurly-burly blur of whirring limbs and flailing, splintering timber in which all 30 players take to the field simultaneously armed with wooden clubs, hurling is not actually as dissimilar to cricket as you'd think.
Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning
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I dream of screaming and splintering wood, of rushing sound and a jet of green light.
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The blade of a poleaxe crashed down, splintering the table, and slicing off the heels of Lynch's boots.
Dragons Of Summer Flame
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After Mr. Janjalani was killed in 1998 in a shootout with police, Abu Sayyaf degenerated into kidnap-for-ransom gangs, splintering into several parts that frequently feuded for control of the islands of Jolo, Basilan and Tawi-Tawi.
Philippine Strike Kills 3 Terrorists
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Al-Rassan was the stronghold of the western Asharite faith until Ammar ibn Khairan killed the last khalif, splintering the land into feuding city-states.
Wertzone Classics: The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
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Some were popped out of their frames by the force of the exploding jet fuel, but they fell without breaking or splintering.
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The reason for the sharp is they shear the hair instead of splintering it.
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She is distracted by the splintering noises thundering in her ears.
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Like Alfred Adler, Jung found himself splintering away to pursue his own theories.
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But then Stanier enters with an impossibly huge drum fill, splintering the subdued mood and booting the song awake.
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She threw it down the path, the tip splintering into sparks.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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Thermal shock is a problem indicated by cracking or splintering, which is caused by rapid heating and cooling cycles.
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The thought enraged her further and her fist hit the mirror, shattering it and splintering the wooden frame around it.
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The fury of the battle seemed to concentre there, and through the time-worn walls the shot was plunging, splintering the planks and beams, and shivering the stone foundation.
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I rapped my knuckles on the splintering wood twice, paused, and knocked again once.
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Linking the "aliyah" to what the Jewish literature has been describing as Eretz Israel or Yisrael HaShleima (Greater Israel) to the Israeli colonial settlement of the Palestinian land, which the Hebrew state occupied in 1967, while at the same time negating the Palestinian Right of Return, is torpedoing whatever prospect is left for a peaceful solution for the Arab – Israeli conflict, undermining the latest U. S.-sponsored launch of the Palestinian - Israeli talks in Annapolis and further splintering, so far politically, the only viable Palestinian partner to Israel in any viable peace process, namely the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
A Peace-killing Linkage, De-linkage
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The inside upper edge should be left unrounded, so as to prevent the staves from splintering when adzing the barrel.
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The fury of the battle seemed to concentre there, and through the time-worn walls the shot was plunging, splintering the planks and beams, and shivering the stone foundation.
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Coat wooden handles with boiled linseed oil to help preserve them and prevent splintering and breaking.
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The foresail and fore-topsail, emptied of the wind by the manoeuvre, and with no one to bring in the sheet in time, were thundering into ribbons, the heavy boom threshing and splintering from rail to rail.
Chapter 17
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Too eager to be respectful, he knocked more and more forcefully, shaking the brittle wallboards and splintering a few pieces of the flimsy sun-baked wood.
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Putting a firm grasp around his waist, she practically dragged him into the joining room across the splintering and cracked floorboards.
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High and clear through the frore fair night, the level moonbeams splintering in the wood, the scarce glints of stars in the shadowy roof of branches, these sacred anthems rose, -- rose as a hope from despair, as some snowy spray of flower-bells from blackest mould.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
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Exactly what Brown will do to stop children splintering from society is not yet clear.
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His wrists broke as he tried to catch himself, splintering under the weight of the senseless lunks of people handcuffed to him.
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The word that comes to mind is exothermic, the first nanoseconds of an explosion splintering into white-hot fractal fissures.
Lambo's Latest Rambo Has a Heart
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Nick heard the crack of his bone splintering as a searing pain shot through his face.
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Parents for Justice had withdrawn its co-operation from the faltering Dunne investigation and, riven by internal bickering, was close to splintering.
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A completely new particle can be produced by disruption or splintering from solid or liquid surfaces.
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The door fell forward, cracking and splintering violently before being tossed gruesomely to the side.
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She tipped over the chair and collapsed into the corner with a splintering crash.
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Nick heard the crack of his bone splintering as a searing pain shot through his face.
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With shot and ball tearing his topsails and splintering the white oak planks and the tall pine masts, the captain of the beleaguered vessel had no choice by raising the white flag.
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The gray people, as a friend of mine called the dour-looking youths of the downtown arts crowd, stuffed into the room on old folding chairs and splintering benches, everyone stepping carefully amid broken floorboards and keeping one wary eye on the wires and pipes hanging from the ceiling.
Enemies: A Literary Love Story
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The division and splintering of local communities continues as the monoliths desperately seek to control and dominate.
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She wanted to slam the door shut, to hear the satisfying crack of wood against wood, splintering and breaking.
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Right!" replied Dale; and a minute later he caught the rings of hemp thrown to him, and rapidly knotted the middle round Saxe, the end to his own waist; and as he knotted, _click, click! chip, chip_! went the ice-axe, deftly wielded by the guide, who with two or three blows broke through enough of the crust to make a secure footing while the ice flew splintering down the slope in miniature avalanches, with a peculiar metallic tinkling sound.
The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps
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The foresail and fore-topsail, emptied of the wind by the manoeuvre, and with no one to bring in the sheet in time, were thundering into ribbons, the heavy boom threshing and splintering from rail to rail.
Chapter 17
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Both involved mounted combat with lances; the former was a peaceful joust, using blunted lances and seeking to score points by splintering lances, the latter was a warlike joust, using pointed lances with unhorsing the principal aim.
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His wrists broke as he tried to catch himself, splintering under the weight of the senseless lunks of people handcuffed to him.
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From young and old one heard many a shock, so that the splintering of the shafts reechoed to the clouds.
The Nibelungenlied
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Then, make your pencil lines and cut on the back of the panel to avoid splintering the veneer with your circular saw.
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He aimed a hefty kick at the door, and there was a splintering sound as wood gave way to metal.
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As it hit the coast, we could hear the splintering sound of the buildings smashed by the powerful onrush.
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The ghoul's upper body split into two pieces with a cracking and splintering of bone.
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Raev'n had gone into the forest, and branches could be heard splintering from within, the sound only broken by her sobs.
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To confuse matters , the DNS is already splintering for a good reason.
