155 examples of sliver in sentences

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

An old envelope stuck in a sliver in the door bore the entry in lead- pencil, "Gone Duck Shooting to Plover Slough," for it was the custom of the twins to faithfully chronicle the cause of their absence and their probable location each time they left home, to make it easy to find them in the event of a cablegram from Aunt Patience's solicitors!

Big Bob, the star bear of the show, had in some way run a great sliver into one paw.

Each in turn averted his eyes and removed from the box a small sliver of ivory.

If it is a sliver from a toothpick, match, or fishbone, it is no easy matter to remove it; for it generally sticks into the lining of the passage.

It is curious to notice, in the writings, of this intelligent commercial geographer, and in the travels of Marco Polo, the peculiar advantages in commerce enjoyed by the Chinese at so early a period, of being paid in sliver for their commodities and manufactures.

[Footnote 20: Sliver, I suspect, called so after the fact, because slivered or torn off.

But it may be that sliver was used for a twig, such as could be torn off.

Slip and sliver must be of the same root.]

He was laughing and chewing a sliver of toothpick.

None of us will ever read more than the tiniest sliver of human literature.

I've a great mind to shave off a sliver and send it to Lincoln.

Anything slippery is described as "slick"; and a slice is a "sliver."

But the mother, a level-headed woman, experienced in emergencies, called out from her bed, "Wait a minute; bring me the child and a candle;" and a minute later she had discovered a little sliver which pricked him when he set his foot down, and extricated it between thumb and finger.

"I'm sure Mr. Joe could stand just a weeny sliver more.

Give him the sliver, John.

A nice sliver was waved dripping on Joe's plate, which Joe proceeded to eat desperately, all in one mouthful.

" Eph sat down on a pile of shavings and chewed a sliver; and the old man kept on at his work.

Foundations for living, by Fern Sliver & Mildred Graves Ryan.

Ltook a sliver off his coat and offered it to us as a souvenir.

She drew a sliver of meat from her plate and tossed it over her shoulder.

"Hm! A sliver from that broken shield must have cut me," said he, and dismissed it wholly from his mind.

" Nam-Bok paused to pick away a sliver of salmon lodged between his teeth, and the men and women, with idle hands and heads craned forward, waited.

There may be a fortune to make or to lose in a minute or a sliver of a minute.

His heavy boot caught in a sliver on the step but the rending of wood brought no response.

155 examples of  sliver  in sentences