Sentence example with the word 'fragment'

fragment

abrade, cleave, cuttings, excerpta, granule, mill, pash, rend, smitch, take apart, wreck

Definition n. a piece broken off or cut off of something else

Last update: February 22, 2016


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Further along lie a few bleached bones, a fragment of a jaw.   [noun]

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The ownership of the farm is increasingly fragmented.   [verb]

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Eighteenth century redware sherds and a fragment of Spanish amphora have been recovered from the foreshore in this area.   [noun]

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"I wish," said Oldbuck, "she would resume that canticle, or legendary fragment."   [noun]

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And, though of far less consequence, I could have wished to transcribe that metrical fragment.   [noun]

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Without exhausting himself with fruitless efforts, the cunning Magua suffered his body to drop to the length of his arms, and found a fragment for his feet to rest on.   [noun]

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"It's a historical ballad," said Oldbuck, eagerly, "a genuine and undoubted fragment of minstrelsy."   [noun]

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Scott says, in a note to the Ashiestiel fragment of Autobiography, that Mr.   [noun]

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These he mentions in the unfinished fragment of his "Reliquiae Trotcosienses," in much the same words as in his manuscript note on one of the seven volumes.   [noun]

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