Example sentences for: shred

How can you use “shred” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Vrooman--a former CIA operative--says there is not a "shred of evidence" against Lee, and that China's stolen nuclear secrets could have come from any of hundreds of government agencies and defense contractors outside the Energy Department.

  • The NYT fronts and the rest of the papers go inside with what is perhaps the world land speed record for credibility disintegration: not only does that St. Martin's Press book alleging that George W. Bush has a coke conviction in his past not contain a shred of convincing evidence, but it turns out that the book's author is apparently a convicted felon who did a five-year stretch for attempted murder.

  • As far as I'm concerned, he lost any shred of a chance he had when he refused to allow Bush to consider a change in the Social Security age.

  • Colleagues had called Notra Trulock's allegations against Wen Ho Lee racist and had said there was not a "shred of evidence" against Lee . Trulock countered that only three of the 12 initial suspects in the case were of Chinese background and called a recent report exonerating the Clinton administration "a whitewash."

  • The Imperial Palace (Kyoto Gosho) and the Katsura and Shugakuin imperial villas are mandatory destinations for anyone with even a shred of interest in Japanese architecture, design, and aesthetics.


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