fragments

Synonyms

shard flinders chips debris litter scrap rubble splinter detritus Barrie snippet sliver scree smithereens wreckage
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Antonyms

core

Phrases with the word

break into fragments bone fragments shell fragments

Examples

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos. Hayao Miyazaki

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. Derek Walcott

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs. Alexis de Tocqueville

However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process. Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead. Henry Adams

What is inflated too much, will burst into fragments. Ethiopian Proverb