sliver
IPA: sɫˈɪvɝ
noun
- A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
- (Upper Midwestern US) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
- A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
- (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
- (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
- A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
verb
- (transitive) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
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Examples of "sliver" in Sentences
- A glint of sliver is seen.
- This is just a sliver of the argument.
- It does not specifiy what the sliver is.
- Earnings season holds out sliver of hope.
- I think that sliver is smaller than you think it is.
- This year for Hanukkah, all I want is a sliver of light.
- There is another way to 'estimate' the area of this same sliver.
- Currently your magazine has become a thin sliver of it's glory days.
- The little sliver in the center right of the map is part of Sabanetas.
- A small sliver of the Township is in the Sixth Congressional District.
- You guys have left them only a very thin sliver of ground to stand on.
- Thereafter, the clamp is released and the fringe of the sliver is combed.
- There was a small sliver of goodness in the shortened life of Phoenix Sinclair.
- Just for the simple fact the sliver is the most voyeuristic movie I have ever seen.
- CowboyCooler -- A sliver is a slice that is the length of the onion and about 1/4 inch wide.
- He is, however, a damn good writer, who can easily cram a juicy epic into a thin sliver of a book: in this case, a 50-page worth Situation.
- Well, my guess is that “thin sliver” of property taxes pretty much funds all the schools, but I really wanted to stand up and ask – what about the capital they have invested in the city?
- Since 1980 a relentless attack on the middle class has concentrated an ever-greater share of national wealth on the hands of a thin sliver of an increasingly aggressive elite; it is reaching its natural culmination in the foreclosure crisis.
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