sliver

a sliver of cheese.

a sliver of land.

slivers of broken glass.

a sliver of rock thin enough to be translucent

there was a sliver of light under his door.

A sliver of glass nicked my hand.

It was found that fibers of circular cross section produce greater cohesion in webs and slivers than do trilobal fibers.

Used for rocking cottonwool and spun silk yarn into sliver and rocing with a certain length in order it measure its evenness.

For a moment he saw nothing but dark tree-shapes and slivers of lancing daylight.

One day,he took me aside and promised me a sliver fourpenny on the first of every month if I would keep my eye open for a sailor with one leg and let him know the moment he appeared.

They survive by occupying any tiny sliver of grassland that remains.

The sticker part of the system contains a tiny sliver of metallic glass.

He could only see a sliver of Sirius's face; the rest was in darkness.

At last, the tunnel began to slope upward and Harry saw a sliver of light ahead.

And even in the darkest depths of the Slump, you'll hear a faint sliver of music.

" Vote Leave" identified a tiny sliver of people who it identified as persuadable, and they saw them.

No what are those three slivers?

And now the third of the sliver.

I added to human knowledge in ever-diminishing slivers of insight.

These potato croquettes had truffle and slivered almonds in them.