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  flinders

  plural noun

  splinters; small pieces or fragments.
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  Flinders

  noun

  Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.

flinders

¹ American  

[flin-derz] / ˈflɪn dərz /

plural noun

1. splinters; small pieces or fragments.

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Flinders ² American  

[flin-derz] / ˈflɪn dərz /

noun

1. Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.

2. a river in NE Australia, flowing NW to the Gulf of Carpentaria. 520 miles (837 km) long.

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flinders British  

/ ˈflɪndəz /

plural noun

1. rare small fragments or splinters (esp in the phrase fly into flinders )

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Etymology

Origin of flinders

1400–50; late Middle English flendris, perhaps < Scandinavian; compare Norwegian flindra splinter; perhaps akin to flint

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Example Sentences

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flinders Flinders

He’s been at it since “Independence Day” in 1996 when aliens blasted the White House to flinders.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2022

A stack of old Washington Post stories on the District’s street nomenclature had been reduced to flinders.

From Washington Post

Fishing craft were splintered, fishermen's shacks blown to flinders.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now, with their summer homes smashed to flinders, with even their beach, real estate so devastated that many an owner thought of letting it go in default of taxes, this opposition was silenced.

From Time Magazine Archive

The infinite threatened to make all motion impossible, while the void threatened to smash the nutshell universe into a thousand flinders.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

"The government has handed Australians a switch. Whether anyone flips it is another matter," Lisa Harrison, a lecturer in communication and media at Flinders University, said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

Lead author Associate Professor Trevor Worthy of Flinders University says the fossils reveal a bird community unlike anything seen in New Zealand today.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

Lead author Corey Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology at Flinders University, says the findings reveal a clear sign that humanity is operating beyond the planet's natural limits.

From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026

Lead author Corinne Mensforth, a PhD candidate from the Flinders Palaeontology Lab, says the fossil is especially valuable because it preserves the internal bones of the skull.

From Science Daily ● May 25, 2026

The vast gulf which lies between the history of Egypt by Herodotus and that by Flinders Petrie is the measure of its achievement.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

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