splintery

IPA: spɫˈɪntɝi

Examples of "splintery" in Sentences

Fracture is splintery due to cleavage.
It is brittle with no observed cleavage and a splintery fracture.
It has a Mohs hardness of 3, exhibits no cleavage and has a splintery fracture.
There were hurdles, swings, a long monkey bars, and a large fort built with splintery wood and lead pipes.
Behind a tall, splintery wooden desk, a girl looked up from a worn paperback and removed a wad of gum from her mouth.
The rest of the house is in various states of ‘unfinished’ from splintery pine floors to wallpaperless, paintless walls.
And at the heart of it all, the town of Jackson, with its splintery boardwalks and elk-horn sculptures, hilltop spas and gourmet cuisine.
Unable to sit still all of a sudden, she jumped up from the blanket and cruised the perimeter of the stall, tracing the splintery old wood with her fingers.
Other bulbs too, spring bulbs, that smell of earth, everything inside is being replaced by display-case fruit not for eating, marble grapes and frosty, splintery pears.
If exquisite can be applied to what ensued and the kind of splintery, fiery, bludgeoning death and maiming those Frenchmen, Spaniards and Englishmen met when, as England expected,