They so broke the iron that it only remained in splintered fragments, much of which could be picked off by hand, and the wood was exposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreign and Colonial News] Reference

Once the empire weakened, the power to mint coins splintered among local lords, princes and bishops, says Redish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Coin Of The Realm] Reference

Alone here in splintered light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Species of Pain « Looking for Roots] Reference

As the seasons have gone on the stories have kind of splintered up, and you don’t see them all together any more, as much.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tail Section » When Arzts Collide! Daniel Roebuck Interview] Reference

Take a look at just how badly things have splintered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sept. 3, 2010: The Day the Colorado GOP Changed Forever] Reference

From splintered board: received cologne value pack from my mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's The Worst Gift You've Ever Received?] Reference

He saw the top rails of the gate which were shattered and splintered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of Autumn] Reference

The opposition is splintered and has been harassed by Berisha for years.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Case Of Alarming Anarchy] Reference

So when punk hit L.A., it arrived as damaged goods, broken and splintered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plimsouls: Looking Back At A Band's Raucous Pop] Reference

Some trees are splintered but are basically sound because the roots are firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tigers And Kittens] Reference

All the world religions have splintered into sometimes violently opposing sects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth Cunningham: Honoring the Elements: The Pagan Roots of Religion] Reference

But rock music is splintered now, and doesn't reverberate as it had a generation before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get A Life - Or A Rolling Stone] Reference

Life was no longer a smooth ride through time, but could be examined as splintered moments.    From Wordnik.com.  [This week's new exhibitions] Reference

The group splintered off from Combat 18 in 1994, and it is not clear how many members belong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hatred In London] Reference

Above the wordMissionthe sign has been deliberately smashed and splintered, probably by an ax.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Forest of the Snake People (Part 1)] Reference

The weight of deep water can crush a human's rib cage, puncturing lungs with the splintered bones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask Tip Sheet] Reference

In its wake, splintered glass globules fleeing like ants from an exploded hill on the 4th of July.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Jeep Wrangler, a moped, a bank bag, Woody Guthrie and stained teeth] Reference

  I could picture them, spinning end over end, frames bent and one lens splintered in the middle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Insured] Reference

The one-drop rule helped to funnel into one racial camp people who might otherwise have been splintered.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Sellout'] Reference

Seven months later, Nowak's fairy tale splintered when her grim mug shot showed up on TV screens across America.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lisa Nowak I Knew] Reference

Ruda says search dogs were being sent in because the splintered wreckage of the building posed a danger to firefighters.    From Wordnik.com.  [South LA Building Explosion Hurls People Into Street] Reference

And anyway, the reasoning goes, the party is such a philosophical mess and so splintered at the moment, what's the point?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dropout Democrats] Reference

The stakes are highest in Indonesia, a fragile and splintered nation that has the largest Muslim population in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberty In The Balance] Reference

Although they made huge gains, populist parties representing narrow caste, language and regional interests were splintered.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grown-Up Election] Reference

Conner dropped out of one earlier race with a broken mast, and the Nippon's rudder splintered during last week's third race.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Duel In The Sun] Reference

The dazzling diversity of the nation he helped to found has splintered old notions of what it means to be an educated person.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Kids Should Know] Reference

The democratic movement splintered into squabbling fractions, each intent on preventing the other from accomplishing anything.    From Wordnik.com.  ['No Work Is Getting Done'] Reference

Some lawmakers will call for a strong intelligence czar to ride herd on the splintered and often feuding intelligence community.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTELLIGENCE: WITH SPIES LIKE THESE...] Reference

Babies have learned to walk and talk, marriages have been celebrated and splintered, American Idols have been crowned and forgotten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Endless Summer] Reference

For one thing, a splintered Iraq would mean independence for the Kurds in the north -- a dangerous inspiration to Iran's 7 million Kurds.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dangerous Game In The Gulf] Reference

There the prisoner sat, yoga-style, on a striped towel; sunlight splintered through the roof, casting a heavenly glow over his white cell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Execution Of Justice] Reference

Senate resolution that suggested dividing their country into three relatively autonomous parts, Iraq has splintered into a hundred pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Strong Like Saddam’] Reference