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- noun Plural form of
fragment . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
fragment .
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Examples
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The wainscot had fallen down, and the boards were rotted away: the study, of which the door was open, had only half its books left; and the tapestry hung in fragments from the walls.
The Old Manor House 1793
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Of the purpose with which he had written he spoke thus in what I described as the fragments of a preface to his Miscellany: --
The Bon Gaultier Ballads Theodore Martin 1862
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Earlier this month he underwent a second surgery on his hip to remove some of the leftover bullet fragments from the shooting.
Paul Helmke: Really, Jon Stewart of the Daily Show? Really? Paul Helmke 2010
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Court case Feres v. United States, in which servicemen who picked up highly radioactive weapons fragments from a crashed airplane were not permitted to recover damages from the government.
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Earlier this month he underwent a second surgery on his hip to remove some of the leftover bullet fragments from the shooting.
Paul Helmke: Really, Jon Stewart of the Daily Show ? Really? Paul Helmke 2010
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Earlier this month he underwent a second surgery on his hip to remove some of the leftover bullet fragments from the shooting.
Paul Helmke: Really, Jon Stewart of the Daily Show ? Really? Paul Helmke 2010
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The advertisement included fragments from a speech in which Mr. Webster quoted Biblical verses such as, "Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands."
Florida Rep. Grayson Stakes Out the Left Louise Radnofsky 2010
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Court case Feres v. United States, in which servicemen who picked up highly radioactive weapons fragments from a crashed airplane were not permitted to recover damages from the government.
Legal Definitions 2009
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Long novels written today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.
August « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Court case Feres v. United States, in which servicemen who picked up highly radioactive weapons fragments from a crashed airplane were not permitted to recover damages from the government.
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