Remnants

Usage examples of shreds.

Korbal Broachhis armour in shreds, rank tendrils of smoke wreathed around himthen Bauchelain, his pale face bruised along one side of his long jaw, blood crusting his moustache and staining his silver beard.

She would then lick him clean, a gesture that stripped him of his last shreds of dignity.

It was in shreds, much of the framework wrapped around his body, with steel fittings and iron leaf edges cutting cruelly.

The falconet jumped and bellowed and, as the smoke cleared he saw that five of the musketeers were down, three torn to shreds by the blast, the others screaming and splashing their blood on the white deck.

His father was silent again as he smoked the last few shreds of tobacco in the bowl of his pipe.

He saw the ragged spikes of teeth, still festooned with shreds of human flesh, and beyond them the lining of the throat, which was a lovely buttercup yellow.

It was enough to wash out the last rotting shreds of wadding and corruption.

He reached down to seize the paper and rip it to shreds but before his fingers touched it there was a soft, rustling sound beneath the sheet, and then a blur of movement.

Gaudy gobs and crimson clots inextricably mixed with tatters of wool and shreds of cotton.

Thousands, millions treated themselves according to instructions, saw the facts in all their hellish actuality, had their few shreds of doubt torn away.