How to Use shard in a Sentence

shard

noun
  • Her eyes might get shards of glass in them.
    — Victoria Barry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Above him, far over the trees, rise shards of bone white rock.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • That shard had wanted her there with me.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The team pulled it out and dropped the shard into a tray.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Shards of rock fanned out and knocked down part of a rock wall along the road.
    — Scott Smith, The Seattle Times, 16 June 2017
  • Along with the eyes on the box, there was glass on the floor, in large shards.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Break the pancetta into shards, and set them on top of the beans.
    — Jill Wendholt Silva, charlotteobserver, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Rudolph lost her right eye and a shard of glass remains in her left eye.
    — Kim Chandler, Star Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The roads are sprinkled with shards of tree branch and flakes of dead grass.
    — Joseph Serna, latimes.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • This removes the small fragments of fruit and tiny ice shards.
    — Kevin Hopper, idahostatesman, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Vanessa wound up bleeding out with a shard of glass in her head.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Conditions have to be just right for thin shards of ice pile up like glass.
    — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The sky has shattered, shards fill the alleys.
    — Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
  • At the site, the team found an abundance of stone tools and pottery shards.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
  • If the glass does break, the shards will be more contained in the cardboard.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Avoid handling hot shards or surfaces.
    — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2025
  • From the shards of norms that the show leaves behind, may a greater nation be built.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2019
  • It is made of dense white clouds of steam, toxic gas and tiny shards of volcanic glass.
    — Time, 22 May 2018
  • What happens when a shard of glass must tell the entire story?
    — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The shards that cut me the deepest were the ones that intended to cut.
    — Veronica Hilbring, Essence.com, 26 July 2017
  • Arrange the shards in a layer in the bottom of your planter.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Sometimes, too, clay pigeons break on the arm, and the shards are sharp enough to cut skin.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 24 May 2023
  • Salt cod fritters are wrapped in shards of batter and creamy in the center.
    — Todd A. Price, NOLA.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • At one point, the man grabs a bottle, breaks it and tries to stab the woman with the shards.
    — Andy Nguyen, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • Most of the victims suffered injuries from glass shards and burns.
    — NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The pavement was still strewn with glass and shards of plastic light covers.
    — Peter Nickeas, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • On a map, the archipelago looks like shards of glass spread across an ocean.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
  • As the iceman chipped away at the ice, kids would get the shards of ice that fell off the back of the truck.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 19 July 2019
  • In it, there’s a shard of glass that shows Captain Carter’s shield.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Tiny shards of red, black and purple glass littered the pavement.
    — CBS News, 10 June 2025

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