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Example sentences for: shards

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You’ll be well-rewarded, with ancient columns resting against olive trees, shards of pottery among the grass blades, and a Governor’s palace and amphitheatre to explore.
There was nothing left but shards of metal and the wails of the doomed.
Such gossip pales beside this "maundering," this reverie for which I am intensely thankful; for nothing so solaces me, calms me in the perplexity of life, and miraculously raises its burdens, as this sublime power, this divine talent for writing endlessly about hardly anything at all, & one should no more interrupt it, while it lasts than one should break the crockery in one's home and leave the shards lying on the kitchen floor for no reason.
Bullets explode in shards of glass and light, bringing death in chiaroscuro.
Brooks studs his familiar, sad-sack persona with hard shards of ruthlessness and opportunism.