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.

  • He even recycles his sex obsessions: Sliver and Basic Instinct both devote inordinate amounts of attention to the fact that Sharon Stone is not wearing any underwear.

  • Analysts see this as a slippery slope, so that pretty soon Intel will watch its margins driven down to a sliver.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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