fragmentary
adjective
consisting of or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete.
fragmentarily
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a word derived from
fragmentary.
Example Sentences
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Eventually and fragmentarily, the story will rewind to explain how Monte and Willow came to be where they are — and where everyone else went.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2019
They were irregulars, armed and clothed fragmentarily with junk taken from real soldiers who were newly dead.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
The island Elysium.—The story of the voyage of Bran is found fragmentarily in the eleventh century LU, and complete in the fourteenth and sixteenth century MSS.
From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. MacCulloch
"I wonder——" Alice began, paused, then went on, fragmentarily: "I suppose—well, I wonder—do you suppose it would have been better policy to have told Walter before——" "No," said her mother.
From Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
Still more did I desire some rendering or even some lines of an ancient chant of whose existence I knew, but had never heard recited, even fragmentarily.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod
