How to Use shard in a Sentence

shard

noun

• Above him, far over the trees, rise shards of bone white rock.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
• The skin is chip-like, a crisp shard you can crunch on with or without the rest of the dish.
  — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022
• In it, there’s a shard of glass that shows Captain Carter’s shield.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 Mar. 2022
• Rudolph lost her right eye and a shard of glass remains in her left eye.
  — Kim Chandler, Star Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
• Sometimes, too, clay pigeons break on the arm, and the shards are sharp enough to cut skin.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 24 May 2023
• What was that shard that just went flying at your neck?
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• There’s a crack and shards on the ground and Angela is left holding the pointless piece.
  — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• The few shards of sunlight that pierce the leaf canopy cast glitter-ball shapes on the bracken.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2023
• George must bounce between the shards of his fractured mind.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 6 May 2023
• The team has also been able to find steel shards and wire made of manganese and platinum.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
• In 2011, a search of Collins' cell uncovered shards of metal, one of which was shaved to a point.
  — Freep.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• Other protesters were injured in the feet and legs by shards of the grenades.
  — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2020
• What happens when a shard of glass must tell the entire story?
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2022
• Within, the bridges are shaped like angular shards, and the wheels are formed as if a blast wave has hit them.
  — Elizabeth Doerr, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2024
• How do these shards of humor make their way into your songs?
  — Vulture, 26 Jan. 2024
• Little shards of fainá, or chickpea pancake, give the dish its bite, as in crunch.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• From the inside, shards of glass can be seen on the apartment's carpeted floor.
  — Tessa Duvall, The Courier-Journal, 14 May 2020
• The shards of fluorescent tubes are swept up after the match.
  — Joshua Needelman, Curbed, 1 Nov. 2023
• No way out of this pit where the sun shatters into shards tongued between teeth.
  — Hazlitt, 17 May 2023
• Four craters are surrounded with shards of glass, flip-flops, and splotches of fresh blood.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• The deer had crashed through a window near the hot tub and sent shards of glass across the pool deck, according to a news release from the Town of LaSalle.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
• Cue the jar being at the center of a tug of war, then cracking into a million tiny shards of glass.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2023
• Three others were hit by shards of glass that shattered in the gunfire exchange.
  — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 June 2023
• One shard of glass ripped his hand and another across his forehead.
  — Alan Cullison, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2022
• They’re also meant to sweep up the shards of our shattered attention spans.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• Laura grabs a shard of a broken ceramic vase and slices her flesh open.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2022
• Now Oakland has reputable al pastor, shaved thin from a trompo and topped with a shard of pineapple.
  — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2022
• The album is composed of 21 glimmering shards, none of the tracks extending much past the two-minute mark.
  — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2023
• Stefan’s athletic dreams were crushed when he was struck by a drunk driver and a shard of glass was lodged in his eye.
  — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2021
• The blast at the neighboring building blew out windows and doors in her apartment, and a shard of glass had pierced one of the young woman's eyes.
  — Hanna Arhirova, ajc, 18 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024