Example Sentences

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That eruption timing corresponds to a volatile period in Earth’s tectonic history when one of the first supercontinents, called Nuna, was splintering apart.

From Scientific American • Sep. 19, 2023

It hurt so much at the time — like it was splintering the world we’d made from the world around us — that we could be together only in an alternate dimension.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2021

Already by al-Rashid’s reign, however, the Caliphate was splintering; it was simply too large to run efficiently without advanced bureaucratic institutions.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

While Theo navigated the labyrinth of America’s asylum process, his home in Anglophone Cameroon was splintering.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2018

As most of the w00w00 membership took serious jobs, often at each other's companies, the security industry as a whole was splintering.

From Reuters • Mar. 7, 2014