What is "splinters"

Usage examples of "splinters".

When Jilly turned her head toward the brothers, she saw still more fragments of windowpanes this must be what they were to the left of her, a galaxy of glittering splinters and larger wedges leisurely tumbling-flying past.

Chips of plaster, splinters of wood, chunks of foam padding, and other debris rained on them as they crawled.

Considering that the volleys of gunfire must have reduced the outer doors to dust or to lacy curtains of splinters, the only doors requiring a solid kick would probably be inside the house.

Rose of Healing into the dirt, brushing aside dried-up needles and desiccated splinters of pine bark so that the outline made a bold mark on the path.

Shell, then it reaches to the shattered planks and splinters that litter the floor, their tiny faded Shells reflecting the life that once flowed through them.

I send the wood flying out into the corridor among the Cats, then I smash the pinwheel into the wall at my side, exploding the planks into what I hope is a blinding cloud of splinters and sawdust.

A chair that got in the way of his furious pacing exploded to splinters under his kick.

They all pushed forward for a chance to tear at the edges of the opening, ripping out their fingernails and driving splinters into the palms of their hands in their haste.

The air was filled with a lethal swarm of splinters blasted from the tree-trunks.

One of the topmast-men had taken a blast of grape in his leg just below the knee and the limb hung by a taller of flesh and exposed stringy white sinew from which protruded sharp white splinters of the shin bone.

The base of the mast was blown away in a storm of white wood splinters and her riggings crashed down to hang over side in an untidy tangle of rope and canvas.

The deck around him dissolved into a buzzing storm of splinters and the knot of Amadoda nearest him were struck squarely and blown into nothingness.

Four logs snapped across, raw white splinters showing in their heartwood, and a man arched out to land crumpled in the wet pastureland between the fort and the invaders.

Behind him, the door of the spell chamber split from top to bottom, shrieking its protest as more than a dozen claws literally tore it apart, tossing down the splinters to reveal an open, empty door frame.

The end that would strike Elminster was a splayed mass of jagged wooden splinters, most of them as long as a man was tall.