Shreds Sentence Examples

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  • Their bodies were torn to shreds where they'd appeared from Traveling.

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  • When the meat has cooked until reduced to shreds or drops from the bones, strain the stock into the stock jar of earthen or stone ware.

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  • If they kept on lashing at each other like this, their relationship would be torn to shreds.

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  • A few long wisps of white hair, like shreds of a torn spider web, clinging to the domed, blue-veined forehead.

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  • Hrolf Kraki's Saga paraphrases part of Biarkamal; Hromund Gripsson's gives the story of Helgi and Kara (the lost third of the Helgi trilogy); Gautrek's Arrow Odd's, Frithiof's Sagas, &c., contain shreds of true tradition amidst a mass of later fictitious matter of no worth.

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  • I could put on a show of force - Order volcanoes to spew out poison, Have tectonic plates tear them to shreds.

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  • You can provide your cat with a scratching post or you can watch in horror as your cat shreds the arm of your designer sofa.

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  • Chewing tobacco is sold as shreds, twists, or blocks of tobacco leaves.

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  • Grease and butter are still very frequently mixed with the cake, and shreds of beef dipped in saffron water are also used.

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  • Cut the courgettes and mushrooms into slices, the broccoli into florets, the cabbage into fine shreds and the carrot into thick matchsticks.

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  • You think you've got things covered for at least a few weeks, only to find these brand new toys in shreds a few hours later.

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  • Quick to anger, you can tear an opponent to shreds with your tongue, so you need to be careful with your words.

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  • Enclosed in a red gold grid case, this Cartier Pasha watch shreds the feminine classiness fit for women.

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  • People told me for years that they lived in our nighties--wore them until they were in shreds--they particularly liked the soft cottons and the flowy femininity.

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  • Damian said he'd need to buy a wheelbarrow to roll her around in soon, and she tore him to shreds.

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  • The name "flock" is given to a material formed of wool or cotton refuse, or of shreds of old woollen or cotton rags, torn by a machine known as a "devil."

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  • In his violence, bound as he was, he tore his clothes into shreds, and his bare shoulders and breast were exposed to the gaze of the surging crowd.

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  • Its whereabouts is thus, to a great extent, concealed both from enemies searching for spiders and from insects suitable for food; and its open meshwork of strong threads makes it much less liable to be beaten down by rain or torn to shreds by winds than if it were a flat sheet of closely woven silk.

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  • The prepared tobacco, while still moist and pliant, is pressed between cylinders into a light cake, and cut into fine uniform shreds by a machine analogous to the chaff-cutter.

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  • To-day such a thing can hardly be done within the United States, for nowhere does the primitive wilderness exist save here and there in shreds and patches.

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  • In the manufacture of these the substances were reduced to the form of slender filaments, shreds, rods, splints, yarn, twine and sennit or braid.

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  • Sidney conducted his case throughout with great skill; he pointed especially to the fact that Lord Howard, whose character he easily tore to shreds, was the only witness against him as to treason, whereas the law required two, that the treason was not accurately defined, that no proof had been given that the papers produced were his, and that, even if that were proved, these papers were in no way connected with the charge.

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  • This i f the post-prophetic problem which occupies the more profound of the later Old-Testament books, but first received its true solution in the gospel, when the last shreds of the old nationalism disappeared and the spiritual kingdom found its centre in the person of Christ.

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  • Trees must be fixed to the walls and buildings against which they are trained by means of nails and shreds (neat medicated strips are now sold for this purpose), or in cases where it is desired to preserve the wall surface intact, by permanent nails or studs driven in in regular order.

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  • When shreds and nails are used, short thick wire nails and " medicated shreds " are the best; the ordinary cast iron wall nails being much too brittle and difficult to drive into the wall.

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  • Professing to be roused by the attack on his friend Boyle, when he had scorned to lift a finger in defence of himself against the earlier dialogues, he tore them all to shreds with an art of which no general description can give an idea.

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  • The matters passed from the bowels, which at first resemble those of ordinary diarrhoea, soon change their character, becoming scanty, mucous or slimy, and subsequently mixed with, or consisting wholly of, blood, along with shreds of exudation thrown off from the mucous membrane of the intestine.

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