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Example sentences for: shards

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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.
Remaining ashes and shards were inelegantly deposited on a metal storage shelf in a lab, in a Styrofoam picnic basket labeled “Colon” in black marker, awaiting better tests [3].
There are shards of movies that stick with me.
Roberts has left the movie's cozy romantic fantasyland in a pile of jagged shards.
Bullets explode in shards of glass and light, bringing death in chiaroscuro.