Which preposition to use with shred

of Occurrences 174%

Put on crisp lettuce leaves in a salad bowl and cover with a mayonnaise dressing Garnish with thin shreds of red beets, and serve.

from Occurrences 8%

The vivid light, flung so full upon her, showed traces of passionate weeping; and her white dress all scorched and burned and hopelessly ruined, with the rich lace hanging in shreds from the sleeves, made her a startling contrast indeed to the usually calm, self-possessed, perfectly-dressed Gerald Vernor.

in Occurrences 6%

When there are no pease to be had, you may put in the heads of asparagus, and if there be neither of these to be had, you may shred in a green savoy cabbage.

on Occurrences 3%

Then the cowards quickened their pace under a sky of red-hot iron, over a burning road, lashed by the knotty branch which was worn into shreds on their livid skins.

into Occurrences 3%

One by one I tossed the white and tiny shreds into the swift water, and watched them as far as I could see them.

in Occurrences 2%

Take a pound of flour, three quarters of a pound of butter, half a pound of sugar and half a pound of currans, well cleaned; rub your butter well into your flour, and put in as many yolks of eggs as will lithe them, then put in your sugar, currans, and some mace, shred in as much as will give them a taste, so make them up in little round cakes, and butter the papers you lie them on.

into Occurrences 2%

Put 1 oz. butter in saucepan and shred into it very finely a large Spanish onion or an equal quantity white of small onions or leeks.

by Occurrences 2%

The title page was gone, the leaves were almost worn to shreds by the fingers of the weavers and labourers, and M. could not discover the edition.

for Occurrences 2%

They are also provided with above a dozen showers of snow, which, as I am informed, are the plays of many unsuccessful poets artificially cut and shredded for that use.

before Occurrences 1%

So he passed forward like one in a fabric of spider-webs almost fearing to breathe lest the whole house should puff away to shreds before him.

at Occurrences 1%

The curtain which hung in the sanctuary was rent in two and hung in shreds at the sides; nothing was to be seen around but crumbled walls, crushed flagstones, and columns either partly or quite shaken down.

as Occurrences 1%

HOT SLAW Cut the cabbage into thin shreds as for cold slaw.

with Occurrences 1%

She begged the fates to lengthen the life-threads, but they said this could not be; they consented, however, to this agreement When ye shred with fatal knife His line which is the eldest of the three, Eftsoon his life may pass into the next:

over Occurrences 1%

And then with a curious gulp and start he saw a little grey cloud wreathe itself slowly from among the rocks and drift in a long, hazy shred over the desert.

to Occurrences 1%

The west was a solid mass of cloud that drifted slowly in the wake of the departing storm, its hindmost part shredded to mist before the path of the hidden moon.

with Occurrences 1%

She watched him from the window while he mounted his horse, but the moment the last red gleam of Ruber vanished, she flung her arms above her head, and with a stifled cry threw herself on a couch, stuffed her handkerchief into her mouth, and in fierce dumb agony, tore it to shreds with hands and teeth.

Which preposition to use with  shred