splintery
Britishadjective
Vocabulary lists containing splintery
"Mississippi Solo," Vocabulary from the memoir
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"Boar Out There" by Cynthia Rylant
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"While it too often sands the complications off what you sense should feel like an uncomfortably splintery issue, in its best moments, it's a quietly fearsome piece of drama," wrote the Telegraph's Robbie Collin.
From BBC • May 31, 2023
This was the solution for my splintery basement floor.
From Washington Post • May 10, 2022
We ascended the Santa Monica Pier’s weather-eaten, splintery steps and walked to the end and back.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2021
Uneven fracture patterns are described as irregular, splintery, fibrous.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
The ship’s carpenter was just as she’d imagined him: the round mountains of his shoulders; the brown, sun-lined face and the bandanna tied around his forehead; the splintery abused hands spotted with scars and pitch.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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