How to Use fragment in a Sentence

fragment

1 of 2 noun

• The dish lay in fragments on the floor.
• I could only hear fragments of their conversation.
• The red fragments highlight dust that is warmed by the largest and brightest stars in the center.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2023
• Glass fragments were found on the ground where the vehicle had been parked.
  — cleveland, 14 July 2023
• The pipe crushed his spine, and fragments of bone badly bruised his spinal cord.
  — Maya Miller, Sacramento Bee, 22 Feb. 2024
• His dog, Harper, was the first on the L.A. team to make a find: a 4-inch fragment of bone buried in the charred maze of a junkyard.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• This guy got his head banged and bone fragments left on the weapon of his execution.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
• But the Seychelles are fragments of an ancient continent dropped in the middle of the sea.
  — Frank Hulley-Jones, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• The wall that the Romans built to enclose the City of London still survives in fragments and in streets that follow its route.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• Most of what has been discovered are bone fragments, teeth and shreds of clothing.
  — Pascale Bonnefoy, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Aesthetic pleasure glints at the jagged angles of the fragment.
  — Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
• However, the search for fragments of a meteor that lit up the sky in the region in 2016 wasn’t fruitful, Pitt said.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
• Two bullet fragments were also found inside the apartment, one on the stairs and one in front of the living room window.
  — Daniel McFadin, arkansasonline.com, 5 Dec. 2023
• That's because the team found only fragments of skulls, arms, and hips at the Moroccan site rather than full bodies of bones.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• The shell fragments came from four Mesolithic hunter-gatherer sites and 11 sites ranging from the Neolithic up to the Iron Age.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
• Crushed bone fragments were discovered on the site in 1990 by family members who’d combed the desert for years.
  — Maggie Shipstead Anthony Cotsifas, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• Bug fragments and rat hair in your peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
• Bomb fragments severed her spinal cord and paralyzed her from the waist down, doctors said.
  — Samar Abu Elouf Samar Abu Elouf, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• The posts the singer has been sharing on her Close Friends outlet have included fuzzy fragments of artwork, most of them awash in blue hues.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2024
• The soldiers come with bandaged limbs soaked in blood, faces blackened with shrapnel fragments and stunned eyes fixed on the ceiling, frozen in shock.
  — Samya Kullab, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2023
• The fragments struck the Kremlin after the drones were shot down by Russia's military, the government said.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
• Made of clay, it was wedged above a human skull and surrounded by fragments of a striated wig.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• An additional third of the particles were in the form of plastic fragments.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2024
• Hudson was standing in the doorway of a building in the village when he was struck by a fragment from an enemy gas shell.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
• It’s believed to be the broken fragment of a much larger asteroid.
  — Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2023
• The approach represents a new one in the field of liquid biopsy, in which DNA fragments in blood are used to detect or learn about tumors.
  — Matthew Herper Reprints, STAT, 9 Oct. 2023
• During the peeling process, dipping the eggs in a bowl of water can not only help speed up the peeling process but also rinse shell fragments off of your egg.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2024
• Among the pieces found were fragments of a flat board, which had a series of holes carved into it, as well as 25 ceramic tokens, researchers said.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
• The boy had a gunshot wound to his left arm and a bullet fragment had gone into his torso, stopping at his ribs just short of his lung, the affidavit states.
  — Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 20 Nov. 2023
• Some ran out with computers, while others threw bags of clothes out of windows onto the street, which was also still littered with broken glass and cement fragments from the quake.
  — Siyi Zhao Lam Yik Fei, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024

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fragment

2 of 2 verb

• The party is fragmenting into warring factions.
• These issues are fragmenting our society.
• The first is that Germany’s fragmenting party system could open the way for the AfD to come first in one or more of the three polls.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2019
• Even with their last half hour of sleep fragmented, snoozers didn’t feel more tired during the day.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2023
• The animals are not adept jumpers, so fences fragment their habitat.
  — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 13 Feb. 2020
• The audience is also fragmented thanks to the boom in streaming.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Oct. 2023
• By 1983, part of the rock coalition began to fragment and fall apart, and that was the result of the influence of what was going on over at MTV.
  — Ron Hart, Billboard, 30 May 2019
• Or would those same devs see it as fragmenting a base group of players?
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 25 June 2018
• Walk farther into the space, however, and the wall appears to fragment.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 21 June 2018
• The sport has a lot on the line as the most dominant group of players in tennis history begins to fragment.
  — Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 24 May 2018
• But despite the importance, the view of the predicament has often been fragmented.
  — Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Currently, stock trading is fragmented across 13 exchanges and dozens of over-the-counter venues known as dark pools.
  — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
• New dams could fragment habitats, lead to overfishing, and threaten the giant Mekong species, Hogan says.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2022
• There’s suddenly a ton of money sloshing around, and, slowly, the tech world is starting to fragment.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2023
• The streaming landscape got complicated and fragmented just in time for the bottom to fall out.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2023
• The Rus’ state had become fragmented, beset by quarrelling among its princes.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Any line of storm that forms is likely to be fragmented, meaning that some areas may get hit hard, while others are passed over.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 9 May 2018
• By contrast, middle-of-the-road and progressive sources were fragmented.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Don't unify your team and your company will fragment or fracture.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• As the birth draws closer the grieving family continues to fragment.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Feb. 2022
• The seminal British band has long been on the front lines of preserving what’s left of the rock scene, fragmented by streaming and buoyed by dad-rock nostalgia culture.
  — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• And if successful, these endeavors could fragment the World Wide Web.
  — Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 12 July 2023
• People can sometimes awake abruptly as a result, and sleep is fragmented.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 29 June 2023
• Venus’ crust isn’t clearly fragmented like Earth’s to allow for plate tectonics.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
• As the television landscape fragmented over the past decade, many shows have been canceled by major networks and then picked up by smaller platforms.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 12 May 2018
• Mountaineers say climbing routes in the Himalayas will get tougher as glaciers that keep the rocks together are now retreating, fragmenting and melting.
  — Eric Niiler, WIRED, 19 June 2019
• The root cause of Jeanette’s confusion is how medical information gets fragmented in the process.
  — Rajeev Ronanki, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Causes of the surge include a decade-long crackdown on drug cartels, which has caused gangs to fragment and diversify into new areas.
  — Ciara Nugent, Time, 29 June 2018
• That being fragmented kept me from considering the near-constant weight of my mortality???
  — Hazlitt, 7 Feb. 2024
• At the start of the pandemic, Bike Party Sacramento largely halted its activities — and with it, this community fragmented.
  — Zoe Larkin, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024