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n. (plural of potsherd English)
Usage examples of "potsherds".
Turning a corner, we came upon the palace garbage-dump, at sight of which, despite the crying need for silence, a wail of grief escaped me: atop the peels and potsherds lit by the gibbous moon lay poor dead Pegasus, belly-up and wings aspread like a great shot gull, all four legs stuck straight toward the heaven he would never take me to.
He slithered back into the daylight, and the sound he made over the gravel, potsherds and sand was strangely reminiscent of chains.
The ground underfoot was a thick, solid carpet of potsherds, scoured and bleached by sand and salt.
He felt along it, pushing his ax before him, and touched not just dirt but potsherds, scraps of wood, two nails, and once a bit of wool cloth, all smashed down into the earth.
The path was littered with red-glazed potsherds that crunched underfoot.
The thin sky-blue potsherds under our feet are First Empire, the thick red ones are from the conquerors.