shard
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4.9
- noun
- /ʃɑrd/
:
esquirla
- There's just graffiti and trash and shards of glass everywhere.
- glass shards
- pottery shards
- fragments and shards
Then he kissed me, as if returning a porcelain Shard to my cheek.
- Then he kissed me, as if returning a porcelain Shard to my cheek.
- I would later learn that this feeling is the Shard of glass rubbing up against my nerve.
- So it's a broken world, but it's also a world in which scattered all around us are the shards of light from this vessel.
- My scapula is blown out and every bump we hit, it felt like a Shard was going to go into my lung.
- I'm still in the same spot, so something I'm really fond of is not having metal shards in my eyeballs.
- And then it cracked and I went and he was silent, didn't make a sound and was pulling shards of glass.
- And then they'd, you know, break it up and leave the pot shards around for us to discover many, many millennia later.
- Kind of hate the author after she put me through all of that trauma, but the Jade setter of Jan Loon and Jade shards.
Examples
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All she cherished was broken and twisted up in shards of metal.
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From the opposite row of windows above their heads, an occasional shard of glass was jarred loose.
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The shard of glass is close.
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Well, these actually look like little shards of crystals.
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One of the many large shards of glass I'm finding all over my house now, which is just really great.
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All the pointy little shards of glass broke my fall.
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Detective Connolly, I have the DNA results from the blood on that glass shard at Cohen's car.
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Suddenly, a store window explodes, sending large shards of glass flying toward the street.
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There was glass, there was shrapnel, and there were these shards of metal everywhere.
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All the pointy little shards of glass broke my fall.
Synonyms
184
3.2
A small piece broken off something larger
79
2.8
A small thin sharp piece broken from wood or glass
Small thin pieces that break off when something is smashed
Antonyms
How Sharp
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shard comes from an old English idea of a 'cut' or 'broken' piece, so picture something that has 'shattered' and left a sharp fragment. That's why a shard is a sharp, broken piece of glass, pottery, or metal.