What is "tattering"

Usage examples of "tattering".

Several seconds passed before he realized that he was lying on the ground, several more before he noticed Michaela lying beside him, and—because darkness was tattering the edges of his vision—it was considerably longer before he distinguished the six undulating darknesses that had ringed Aimée Cousineau.

Then, leaving the village, he had seen a small girl standing beside the shell of the last house, watching them, her colorless rag of a dress tattering in the breeze.

Spurgeon, rags tattering in the breeze, stumbled toward him and nearly fell.

Through the tattering veils of a headache, I forced my mind to function.

This was different, in that I did not feel spread out and tattering, but trapped in a tangle of myself, bobbing in the current with nowhere to anchor myself save in Nighteyes' body.

And now the last of Frank's quarter-hour passed, marked by no event more vital than an increasing flickering and tattering of the tunnel's plasma wall, which here began to churn almost like a mass of falling water.

Through a tattering wall of the stuff that hurtled outward from the star, the great berserker came.

The old man was still shadowy and faint to him, tattering in the pearl-gray winds of the place.

Strands peeling and twisting away from me, all the overlays that made me myself, memories, emotions, the deep thoughts that mattered, the flashes of poetry that one experiences that strike deeper than understanding, the random memories of ordinary days, all of it tattering away.

I was tattering away in it, coming undone like a piece of knitting comes unraveled when the right thread is tugged.

Her long blonde braid was tattering to straw from the wind and salt water, but she cared not at all.