Example Sentences

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Instead, the middle class is splintering along generational lines.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

Now this very coalition is splintering as his support spirals downward.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2026

Because the wood is splintering and moving up and down, there is probably not a clean break.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2021

On Wednesday, Sept. 30, at noon Eastern the Free Speech Project will host an hourlong online discussion about how the single global internet is splintering.

From Slate • Sep. 28, 2020

As made with defeat,      It blows more and more hard;      There is bursting of sheet,      There is splintering of yard.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert