Example sentences for: shred

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

  • The scene evokes the gracious life, even if it doesn't quite translate to the real world: As dog owners know, the family pet--if it fetches the newspaper--is as likely to shred it as to deliver it.

  • The former chief of counterintelligence told the Washington Post that investigators targeted Lee because he is Chinese-American and that there is not a "shred of evidence" against him . However, an Energy Department official told the New York Times that the charges of racism are bunk and that only three of the 12 initial suspects in the case were of Chinese background.

  • 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.

  • Indeed, if the PDFA had a shred of integrity, its ads would be battling alcohol and tobacco, America's two most injurious drugs and the two most popular among teens.

  • When the President pressed Clarke to check if Saddam was involved and said that he wanted to learn of any shred of evidence, Clarke promised to look at the question again, but added that the NSC and the intelligence community had looked in the past for linkages between al Qaeda and Iraq and never found any real linkages.


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