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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

Two Malays, silent and almost motionless, steered, one on each side of the wheel, whose brass rim shone fragmentarily in the oval of light thrown out by the binnacle.

From Lord Jim by Conrad, Joseph

The matter separated through the growing excess of centrifugal speed would have been cast off, not by rarely recurring efforts, but continually, fragmentarily, pari passu with condensation and acceleration.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

It managed only to express itself partially, fragmentarily, in various transformations, till, by change, it found in the idea of the Mass for the Dead its fitting opportunity.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul