sherd
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A pottery sherd bearing Smenkhkara’s name, found by Hawass’s team at a city called the “Dazzling Aten” near the Valley of the Kings, supports this view.
From Scientific American • Nov. 4, 2022
“No amount of sieving, sherd counting, text criticism or ancient DNA analysis can alter that equation,” Greenberg says.
From Scientific American • Apr. 11, 2022
Spirals — carved into the Westray Stone, a magnificent tomb relic — crop up on a ceramic sherd in a newly ploughed field.
From Nature • Sep. 15, 2019
Garner got out of his car and took no more than a few steps before he saw an earth-colored pottery sherd.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 9, 2016
It may have come when our honour and the hope of all our days lay at our feet shattered like a sherd on the world's hard road.
From Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life by Haggard, Henry Rider
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