SHRED in a Sentence
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24 example sentences for SHRED, such as:
1. Cut the orange peel into fine shreds.
2. The critics tore his performance to shreds.
3. She did not taste the shreds of roast pork.
4. Serve the fish on a bed of shredded lettuce.
5. The clothes were ripped to shreds and covered in blood.
2. The critics tore his performance to shreds.
3. She did not taste the shreds of roast pork.
4. Serve the fish on a bed of shredded lettuce.
5. The clothes were ripped to shreds and covered in blood.
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Meanings and Examples of SHRED
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shred
n. a small piece of cloth or paper
v. tear into shreds
Classic Sentence:
1 But the breezes shred all asunder and give them unaccomplished to the clouds.
2 Phoebus heard, and inly granted half his vow to prosper, half he shred into the flying breezes.
3 She threw away the shred of Old Man's Beard that she had picked in passing and kicked open the greenhouse door.
4 Then she turned wearily to Kennicott in a house filled with quiet and crumbs and shreds of Chinese costumes.
5 She did not taste the shreds of roast pork.
6 He rummaged in the roll-top desk on which Nat Hicks kept bills, buttons, calendars, buckles, thread-channeled wax, shotgun shells, samples of brocade for "fancy vests," fishing-reels, pornographic post-cards, shreds of buckram lining.
7 For even when coming into slight contact with the outer, vapoury shreds of the jet, which will often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it.
8 How the wild winds blow it; they whip it about me as the torn shreds of split sails lash the tossed ship they cling to.
9 On the table in the window were several shreds from a pencil which had been sharpened.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
10 I am sure you did not, for a duster would have swept away these shreds of varnish.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
11 Above me, in the intense blue of the summer sky, some faint brown shreds of cloud whirled into nothingness.
12 I found the mess to consist of indifferent potatoes and strange shreds of rusty meat, mixed and cooked together.
13 But he did neither: and, when he was sitting alone in the deserted tram, he tore his ticket into shreds and stared gloomily at the corrugated footboard.
14 Her nerves must be shredded if the noise of the well windlass, bound up in her earliest memories, could frighten her.
Example Sentence:
1 We cannot afford to lose our reputation, not even a shred of our reputation.
2 There is not a shred of evidence that the meeting actually took place.
3 The clothes were ripped to shreds and covered in blood.
4 Cut the orange peel into fine shreds.
5 The critics tore his performance to shreds.
6 Its springtime for President Bill Clinton as he watches his Republican challengers rip each other to shreds.
7 Within a year, other researchers had torn the theory to shreds.
8 She wrote an opprobrious editorial in the newspaper about the critic who tore her new play to shreds.
9 The EU recently shredded old euro coins and sent the scrap nickel and copper to China.
10 Serve the fish on a bed of shredded lettuce.