What is "shards"

Usage examples of "shards".

But the daimone caught the blade and just the touch of that hand shattered the iron blade into shards that sprayed out, caught fire, and spattered against the ground in a hissing hail of sparks.

At the Polar Flare, where there is always news of the shadows, she catches the ball of light that is flung at her, unwraps the spinning advertisement without bothering to read the icons, there is nothing at its center, and she frowns, and tosses the glittering shards like confetti back onto the net.

The bright shards of data slid past unchanged, stinging rain against her skin.

The glass has fallen all around him, shards glittering on his body, and she winced and moved toward him, sweeping the bits of glass awkwardly out of her way.

I also saw the leavings from the battle, bones of horses and men picked clean, countless shards of arrows.

Pain cut so hard up behind his eyes, beside his swollen ear, that he stumbled and tripped, hitting his knees against shards of sharp rock.

She fingers a piece the color of young dandelions and finds shards that look like flower petals: hyacinth and wisteria and lilac.

She experiments by putting the shards on the bedsheet, spread apart, and discovers that their true colors emerge on a clean white background.

As for Harold, he was blinded by shards of glass that blew inward from the window.

Once, he went with her on her sea glass walk and they played a screwy game in which they color coded the people in the house to match the shards of glass.

Craer heard stone shatter and shards clack and clatter off the stones around the swordmaster, an instant before he bent to hammer with the pommel of his own blade at the stony hands now tightening with crushing force around his own ankles.

Stone shards that kissed the heels of the staggering armaragor, goading him into a stumbling run, and almost beheaded a desperately diving procurer.

Glass sang and screamed into shards, guardian spells shattered in sighing silver smoke and sparkling dust, and the armaragor charged through the ruin into the room, to snatch at the convulsing procurer with a snarl.

Two heads snapped around to watch the shards of the spell telltale tinkle and scatter across the floor.

The spell that howled out of her then shattered the stones of the arch, driving their shards right through the diving bulk of the nightwyrm in a deadly spray.