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
Again and again has the kingdom 'suffered violence'—has been brought fragmentarily into the world 'by force'—by the only irresistible force—that of suffering, of love, of self-renouncing faith.
From The Case of Richard Meynell by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Franklin's fondness for Socratic centrality, discipline, and knowledge of self is fragmentarily shown by the aphorisms appropriated in Poor Richard.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
I nodded—for what she had related so fragmentarily was in reality an excellent approach to the Chamberlain-Moulton theory of a coalescing nebula contracting into the sun and its planets.
From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
