Shreds
[ʃredz]
Examples
- The floor is bare, except that one old mat, trodden to shreds of rope-yarn, lies perishing upon the hearth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I am sure you did not, for a duster would have swept away these shreds of varnish. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- And down she fell--down all around me--down in shreds and fragments--and I trode upon her. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- For Heaven's sake don't get started on a new problem when your nerves are all in shreds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- To her, what hurts becomes immediately embodied: she looks on it as a thing that can be attacked, worried down, torn in shreds. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I found the mess to consist of indifferent potatoes and strange shreds of rusty meat, mixed and cooked together. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Little Dorrit had finished a long day's work in Mrs Clennam's room, and was neatly gathering up her shreds and odds and ends before going home. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- On the table in the window were several shreds from a pencil which had been sharpened. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Typist: Nathaniel