Words similar to sliver

Example sentences for: sliver

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

Alfred Sloan of General Motors, who never made $830 million in his life, owned only a tiny sliver of GM, but he still managed it as if it were his.
But, the Globe notes, Harvard has accepted donations from foreign dictators, routinely denied tenure to brilliant young faculty, and refused to spend more than a sliver of its almost $13 billion endowment on increased financial aid.
Therefore, for evaluating cancer biomarkers, we are only interested in the leftmost sliver of the ROC curve in Figure 1.
Since the mid-1980s, Eszterhas has been churning out more or less identical genre pictures: Jagged Edge (1985), Betrayed (1988), Basic Instinct (1992), Sliver (1993), Jade (1995) . Basic plot: Hero/heroine falls for weirdo.
Like most successful urban legends, this one is based on a sliver of truth.