splinter

[US]/'splɪntə/
[UK]/'splɪntɚ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a sharp fragment, shard, or splinter; a sharp pointed piece

Phrases & Collocations

wooden splinter

splintered wood

remove splinter

painful splinter

glass splinter

Example Sentences

a splinter of ice.

took the splinter out.

the party had begun to splinter into factions.

run a splinter into one's finger

Opinions are splintered now.

a splinter had pierced the skin.

I have got a splinter in my finger.

I got a splinter in my finger while I was sawing the wood.

the world seemed to shiver into a million splinters of prismatic colour.

In the widening gyre the greatest of them have splintered into matchwood.

Repeated blows splintered the door. To

Baker's rod is splintered, and Mond's reel is out of fix.

I started to chop furiously, the dry wood riving and splintering under the axe.

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The viciousness of a kind , simplehearted soul , like gritty sand in the rice or splinters in deboned fish ,can give a person unexpected pain.

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