Explore Splintered through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Splintered meaning
simple past and past participle of splinter
Using Splintered
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of splinter
- In the example corpus, splintered often appears in combinations such as: splintered into, and splintered, splintered and.
Context around Splintered
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Splintered
- In this selection, "splintered" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, toys, brawl, canonically, trees, off and title stand out and add context to how "splintered" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a canonically splintered off sequel and boat had splintered. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "splintered" sits close to words such as aborigines, abreu and accommodates, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with splintered
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The back splintered and broke off. (6 words)
A fragmented and splintered Congress lacks a coherent and binding idea or theme. (13 words)
The rescue operation then went out early on Sunday after the boat had splintered. (14 words)
But footage of the area, livestreamed from a drone and seen by The New York Times, verified soldiers’ accounts of heavy Russian airstrikes that have destroyed the houses and turned the river bank into a mass of mud and splintered trees. (41 words)
In the over 60-second clip, multiple people grappled as the fight carried over to the luggage conveyor belt, with nearly ten people throwing bows as the brawl splintered into two different areas in the baggage claim area. (38 words)
I was looking on the Waze screen as we were driving up, and asked my friend what the red and white barriers were on the electronic map which splintered off of the road we were on. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
A condition of the sales agreement was for Ashley to deliver a splintered title when requested.
A fragmented and splintered Congress lacks a coherent and binding idea or theme.
But footage of the area, livestreamed from a drone and seen by The New York Times, verified soldiers’ accounts of heavy Russian airstrikes that have destroyed the houses and turned the river bank into a mass of mud and splintered trees.
Debris lay scattered inside the shells of homes and on lawns: clothing, insulation, toys, splintered furniture, a pick-up truck with its windows shattered.
In the over 60-second clip, multiple people grappled as the fight carried over to the luggage conveyor belt, with nearly ten people throwing bows as the brawl splintered into two different areas in the baggage claim area.
It also works well as a canonically splintered-off sequel to A Death in the Family.
It states: "Windows of the great public buildings, broken by protestors, are splintered or patched with duct tape.
I was looking on the Waze screen as we were driving up, and asked my friend what the red and white barriers were on the electronic map which splintered off of the road we were on.
Once more, the Braves splintered that statement before the Mets could even clear their throats.
The back splintered and broke off.
The doors and their frames were either splintered, or the hinges had torn free of the wall.
Then Netflix, and its competitors, splintered the market, obliterating the brick-and-mortar video store with its subscription streaming service model.
The rescue operation then went out early on Sunday after the boat had splintered.
When she arrived home she found her door lying “splintered, kicked in with the lock broken”.
A coalition of pro-business groups cast doubt on that science — a tactic that splintered public opinion.
A mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees devastated Yambali in the South Pacific nation’s remote highlands when a limestone mountainside sheared away on Friday.
Around Greenfield, the scenes of destruction began abruptly, with lush green yards transitioning into the chaos of splintered lumber and lawns littered with household items — a cooler, a sink.
But rescuers are struggling to reach cutoff communities, including vacation homes by Lake Lure, once an idyllic draw for visitors, now a swamp of splintered trunks, boats, and docks.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz is opposed to sending the missiles, and the issue has splintered his governing coalition.
He intensified the blue, splintered its motifs into finer, more mosaic-like patterns and added the sparkle of silver.
Common combinations with splintered
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- splintered into 11×
- and splintered 7×
- splintered and 7×
- splintered the 5×
- the splintered 5×
- splintered in 5×
- had splintered 3×
- of splintered 3×
- were splintered 3×
- splintered trees 2×