Example sentences for: splintered

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

  • The boats are brightly colored and carefully tended to ensure that they are always in peak condition — not one is splintered or sun-bleached.

  • He drifted away from his guests to the television, where Close found him channel surfing, staring at the procession of silent images as they blinked past, his once-legendary attention span splintered into nothingness.

  • A big part of the problem is Jennifer Aniston, who plays Nina as if her confusion is a consequence less of so many modern splintered paradigms than of plain simple-mindedness.

  • By the 11th century, the caliphate had splintered into a mosaic of fractious states — 26 at one point, and the Balearics became an independent emirate.

  • The subsequent power struggle at first split the country into two imperial courts, and then effective control of Japan was splintered for two centuries among scores of daimyo (feudal warlords).


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