A rough splintery floor of old pine boards. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Tables and chairs filled a splintery wooden floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
The boards of the porch were splintery and warped. From Wordnik.com. [The Waste Lands]
The paddles were stripped down to the splintery wood. From Wordnik.com. [Tell No One]
Crossett was looping a line around a splintery piling. From Wordnik.com. [The Metrognome and other Stories]
Something to do with dogs, splintery poles, and a full moon. From Wordnik.com. [super-suzan Diary Entry] Reference
Sometimes the splintery sound of her weeping could be heard. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
Lavim yelped, dove, and caught the splintery edge of the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Stormblade]
JAKE REACHED OUT, PUT his hands on the splintery gate, and pushed. From Wordnik.com. [The Waste Lands]
And crawl he did, across the rough, splintery floor of the old car. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South] Reference
But on December 19th came another dreadful and splintery packing-case. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919] Reference
The splintery door opened, and a familiar, black-clothed form strode in. From Wordnik.com. [Mistborn] Reference
The wood was weathered and splintery and the stand was in uneven repair. From Wordnik.com. [Hunting Season]
Her sneakers left blurry, sopping footprints on the splintery floorboards. From Wordnik.com. [Courting Trouble]
The other trick was to wear socks, because the floors were old and splintery. From Wordnik.com. [Every Secret Thing]
It stopped halfway up, and Elise wriggled through onto a splintery wooden floor. From Wordnik.com. [Watcher 3] Fire Watcher]
The floor was splintery and only partly covered by frayed rugs and worn oil cloth. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Minds Her Business] Reference
It was rough-surfaced and splintery, with tiny cool heads of nails driven into it. From Wordnik.com. [In the Presence of the Enemy]
"Got you, little thief." he roared, dragging Harvey back into his splintery embrace. From Wordnik.com. [The Thief of Always]
She wore her old scared look and clutched the splintery arms with white-tipped fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Earthly Possessions]
Cut it here, slice it, slice it, so splintery burrs of wood stuck out in every direction. From Wordnik.com. [He Don't Know Him] Reference
Between the mattress and the splintery wall is a small pink Keds tennis shoe, a girl's size. From Wordnik.com. [Predator]
Before girls he only knew cold rubber and metal of pliers and wires and splintery wood skins. From Wordnik.com. [His Name Was Do Re Mi] Reference
Trying to pull the hammer out of the thin wood, she worked a large splintery piece toward her. From Wordnik.com. [Manhattan Is My Beat]
As she approached the far wall, she could see a splintery wooden door set in the room's corner. From Wordnik.com. [Mistborn] Reference
Usually odorless, not splintery, not resinous, with little contrast between early and late wood. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
Jack's blue toes began to tap the splintery floor and his heart jiggled and jumped in his chest. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Spurling took out his knife and deliberately slithered a long, splintery shaving off the fence-top. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
It was blowing showers of bright splintery sparks like rain into the still black bulk of the house. From Wordnik.com. [Knockdown]
I myself liked to stand by the splintery lath trough, in which the skittle-boy rolled back the balls. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
I handed over to the boy the ridiculous fare that he demanded and mounted the splintery seat beside him. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
The young woman who shut the splintery wooden door behind her took no notice of the commotion she had caused. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
The wood has a disagreeable, rancid odor, is splintery, not resinous, with decided contrast between early and late wood. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
She shuddered to imagine being trapped in this splintery web of wood, smothered by encroaching darkness and the stench of bilge water. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.