Example Sentences

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Her muscles felt like they'd become wood and she imagined her bones were splintering and growing bones of their own.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

It was so overrun with ivy that the windowpanes were splintering.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

In English class today, we discussed one of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems, and it felt as if something were splintering inside me.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez