Explore Sliver through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like splinter or fragment. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Sliver meaning
- A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
- Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
Synonyms of Sliver
Using Sliver
- The main meaning on this page is: A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment. | A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment. | Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
- Useful related words include: splinter, fragment, dissever, separate.
- In the example corpus, sliver often appears in combinations such as: sliver of, small sliver, only sliver.
Context around Sliver
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sliver
- In this selection, "sliver" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, little, smaller, stray and kia stand out and add context to how "sliver" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a sliver of hope and a stray sliver of cosmic. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sliver" sits close to words such as anthropologists, archived and awakens, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sliver
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This is never more effective than on Sentinel Sliver. (9 words)
Slice a sliver from one side to make them stable in the tin. (13 words)
Building plans say the pool is designed above the floodplain that crosses over a sliver of the property. (18 words)
A sliver of hope tantalises after years of what has amounted to a new dark age where a kind of Muzak of madness has dominated what could charitably be described as the “public discourse” in the dis-United States. (39 words)
Levine, citing arguments similar to those of other hospital leaders, insisted the CMS five-star rating system is broken because it judges hospitals on a sliver of patients and doesn’t account for poor health in the region. (38 words)
It seems to be the case that the Ukrainian Army has managed to hold onto a smaller and smaller sliver of territory inside the Bakhmut city limits so Russia could not say that the town has fallen. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
A 24-year-old man was driving when a sliver Kia pulled up, and someone inside fire shots, police said.
And yet the glass greenhouse on the hill is perfectly positioned to capture that sliver of red light and send it like a flame to the flat geometry of its length and width.
A sliver of hope tantalises after years of what has amounted to a new dark age where a kind of Muzak of madness has dominated what could charitably be described as the “public discourse” in the dis-United States.
Building plans say the pool is designed above the floodplain that crosses over a sliver of the property.
Despite the recent success, Bing remains a sliver of the global search market share at 2.79%, to Statcounter, a market research firm.
Hydrogen telescopes, they block all that spectrum light, from blue light to yellow light—it just lets that little sliver of hydrogen through.
It seems to be the case that the Ukrainian Army has managed to hold onto a smaller and smaller sliver of territory inside the Bakhmut city limits so Russia could not say that the town has fallen.
Levine, citing arguments similar to those of other hospital leaders, insisted the CMS five-star rating system is broken because it judges hospitals on a sliver of patients and doesn’t account for poor health in the region.
On top of our base layer, we find a sliver of only 680,000 people who make up 2.7 per cent of the population.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have a "sliver of hope" to reunite with the rest of the royal family, an expert has claimed.
Slice a sliver from one side to make them stable in the tin.
Such an unrelated object that scientists initially thought they were dealing with an atom, an anomaly, perhaps a stray sliver of cosmic rays that hit Hubble’s cameras.
Suhad Alkhatib said there was a sliver of hope when she heard that one of her aunts had left her home just in time before an airstrike.
The body of the bullet went right, and a sliver of a fragment hit me when it deflected left.
The ensuing vortex of energies destabilizes Shayde’s body, but having impressed Carnage with his determination, the symbiote saves his life by bonding him with a sliver of itself.
The filmmaker credited the couple on the Oscars stage for sharing the sliver of their life that made the documentary special.
There is no redemption in January rain, no sliver of optimism, no cause for hope, no celebration in the dawning, not from January rain.
This is never more effective than on Sentinel Sliver.
With only a sliver of moon in the sky, conditions this year will be ideal for seeing lots of meteors.
And It demonizes anyone who doesn’t agree, anyone who votes red – even those voting GOP in the desperate hope it will result in a sliver of financial relief.
Common combinations with sliver
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sliver of 93×
- small sliver 11×
- only sliver 6×
- was sliver 5×
- when sliver 4×
- and sliver 4×
- sliver in 4×
- that sliver 3×
- little sliver 3×
- have sliver 3×