Narrow sharp fragment

Usage examples of sliver.

To retrieve and decode that sliver, Riveroma needs a string of information that will be found coded onto a specific antibody which he will find in your bloodstream.

Cars jumped as the barrage of 1 mm needles punched through chassis and engine, every window along the entire street shattering under the arrival of the deadly depleted-uranium, hollow-point slivers.

Behind him came a griffin, a wyvern, a four-footed whale, several carnivorous rabbits, a pair of trolls, a thunderbird, a sliver cat, a hippogriff, a satyr, a winged horse, three hoopsnakes, a pantheon, a firedrake, a monoceros, a double-headed eagle, a cyclops, a flight of barnacle geese, a chimera, and a number of creatures of less ordinary aspect that Dor could not identify in the rush.

Shimmering slivers of prismed sunlight randomly found their way to earth as the breeze shifted the great branches overhead.

I guess having ten legs, each with a sliver of retractile claw on the end, is a pretty good substitute for fingers.

Imperial Roum, and the rubble of the Time of Sweeping, and books inscribed on slivers of white metal, written toward the close of the Second Cycle.

Julian sprinkled on the Parmesan slivers as well as judicious amounts of chopped chivesnever scallions, as this was another thing the do-the-catering-yourself crowd kept their eyes out for.

The penultimate course was presented-tiny tartlets filled with quince and nuts, and fragrant cheeses with toasted slivers of bread-and Javan gradually began to relax a little.

The sliver was a crystallite unscrambler, the active portion of the gadget consisting of a particular pattern of tiny crystals of tungsten embedded in an aluminum matrix.

Though even a sliver of unshelved wallspace in a bookshop might seem like folly in these parts, the view from the street was seductive.

The sun was only a sliver on the horizon, above the Los Angeles skyline off to the east.

Insert 2 or 3 garlic and ginger slivers in each hole, and poke the cloves into the meat at evenly spaced intervals.

At length he became aware that the djinni had come close again, and was sitting on its haunches, idly stirring a long sliver of wood in the fire.

When at last the Eritrean guides pointed out to Castelani the shallow forested valley below them, there was sufficient light from the sliver of silver moon overhead for Castelani to survey the ground with the eye of an old professional.

Choosing a forklike utensil, Stevens carefully pared off a sliver of the mass and popped it into his mouth.