Example Sentences

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The game, where contestants guess the letters of a mystery word or phrase, has been part of the TV landscape ever since, surviving huge changes that have splintered the mass audience.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2025

The investigations have splintered the Thomas Jefferson community.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2023

Larger groups have splintered but the overall number of participants has also grown, Hofmann said.

From Reuters • Aug. 4, 2022

For a start both teams, for and against independence, have splintered.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2022

It must have splintered many of the city’s wood-and-plaster buildings; fallen torches and scattered cooking fires would have ignited the debris, burning down most surviving structures.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann