How to Use shard in a Sentence

shard

noun
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  • Above him, far over the trees, rise shards of bone white rock.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • After Pearl leaves, Rick brings one of the shards of glass to his neck.
    — Leah Marilla Thomas, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The skin is chip-like, a crisp shard you can crunch on with or without the rest of the dish.
    — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • In it, there’s a shard of glass that shows Captain Carter’s shield.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 Mar. 2022
  • From the shards of norms that the show leaves behind, may a greater nation be built.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Rudolph lost her right eye and a shard of glass remains in her left eye.
    — Kim Chandler, Star Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Sometimes, too, clay pigeons break on the arm, and the shards are sharp enough to cut skin.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 24 May 2023
  • What was that shard that just went flying at your neck?
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • There’s a crack and shards on the ground and Angela is left holding the pointless piece.
    — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The few shards of sunlight that pierce the leaf canopy cast glitter-ball shapes on the bracken.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2023
  • George must bounce between the shards of his fractured mind.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 6 May 2023
  • The team has also been able to find steel shards and wire made of manganese and platinum.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
  • In 2011, a search of Collins' cell uncovered shards of metal, one of which was shaved to a point.
    — Freep.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Other protesters were injured in the feet and legs by shards of the grenades.
    — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2020
  • What happens when a shard of glass must tell the entire story?
    — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Within, the bridges are shaped like angular shards, and the wheels are formed as if a blast wave has hit them.
    — Elizabeth Doerr, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2024
  • How do these shards of humor make their way into your songs?
    — Vulture, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Little shards of fainá, or chickpea pancake, give the dish its bite, as in crunch.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
  • From the inside, shards of glass can be seen on the apartment's carpeted floor.
    — Tessa Duvall, The Courier-Journal, 14 May 2020
  • Most appear to be synthetic fibers, along with a few chips and shards.
    — Cheryl Katz, National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2019
  • The shards of fluorescent tubes are swept up after the match.
    — Joshua Needelman, Curbed, 1 Nov. 2023
  • No way out of this pit where the sun shatters into shards tongued between teeth.
    — Hazlitt, 17 May 2023
  • Four craters are surrounded with shards of glass, flip-flops, and splotches of fresh blood.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The deer had crashed through a window near the hot tub and sent shards of glass across the pool deck, according to a news release from the Town of LaSalle.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The small area is filled with disco ball–like mirror shards embedded in the walls.
    — Laura Studarus, Marie Claire, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Cue the jar being at the center of a tug of war, then cracking into a million tiny shards of glass.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Three others were hit by shards of glass that shattered in the gunfire exchange.
    — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 June 2023
  • One shard of glass ripped his hand and another across his forehead.
    — Alan Cullison, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2022
  • The characters speak in archaic phrases and words, mixing shards of Shakespeare, Ovid, and at one point straight-up Latin.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 May 2024
  • This process could splinter the shelf into an unsteady mass of giant, shifting shards that will no longer stabilize one of Antarctica's largest glaciers.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022

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