Splintering is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPLINTERING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SPLINTER, to split into sharp, slender pieces
• break or cause to break into small sharp fragments
• (of a group or organization) separate into smaller units, typically as a result of disagreement
NOUN:
• a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, glass, or similar material broken off from a larger piece
• the act of chipping something

Words related to SPLINTERING

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How to use SPLINTERING in a sentence

• By a miracle the palisade was not struck, but I heard a rending and splintering in the forest where tall trees had met their doom.
• Just as he did so there was a blow, a splintering of wood.
• They frequently pass through bone tissue without splintering.
• They heard that awful, muffled sound of splintering bone and then the scream of the tortured horse.
• There was a crashing of glass and a splintering of wood as the door gave way.
• Several heavy blows were struck in rapid succession against a bulkhead, followed by a rending crash and splintering timbers.
• There was a violent clatter on the brick walk outside, followed by a crashing thump, which was accompanied by the sound of splintering wood.
• Once more she crashed upon the low-lying barrier, and this time an ominous splintering sound followed.
• From young and old one heard many a shock, so that the splintering of the shafts reechoed to the clouds.
• Another shell whistled and roared down, burst with a deep angry bellow, a clattering and rending and splintering sound of breaking stone and wood.
• The work was easier then, but he had to resist the temptation to seize the brittle stuff and break it in pieces, for fear the splintering sound would be too sharp.
• The texture of the palmetto wood suffered the balls to sink smoothly into it without splintering, so that the facing of the work held well.
• I heard the thunder of our own guns, and the shouts of our men, and the splintering crash of the heavy shot that came aboard of us.
• There was a shuddering noise, a splintering sound of wood giving.
• There was a crackling sound, a splintering of wood and the hinges gave way.
• Beneath the low-hung night cloud That raked her splintering mast The good ship settled slowly, The cruel leak gained fast.
• Between precipices echoed the crash of ice sliding loose and splintering as it fell in ponderous masses.
• Just as I had secured the pocketbook I heard the door splintering, and rushed into the passage again with my heavy kitchen poker lifted in both hands.
• The next instant there was a splintering, crashing and rending of wood.
• The light was shining out into the hall, and my discovery of that was followed almost immediately by the faint splintering of wood.
• There was a smash of splintering wood and breaking glass.
• On March 4, 1915, at Mesnil-les-Hurlus, a ball pierced his heart, splintering in its passage the cross of the Legion of Honour of which he was so proud.
• There came a vast roar, but with it a number of smaller sounds, as of voices deep down under the flood, glass splintering, rocks rumbling.
• Some of them were perforated by cannon-shot, or have been completely cut off in that peculiar splintering that marks the course of a projectile through green wood.
• The hum of bullets could be heard overhead, and there was the sound of splintering wood, as others crashed into the rear of the auto, but the machine sped on.
• The whizzing bullets again flew around the car, and there was again the sound of splintering wood, as they smashed into the rear of the auto.
• The brig immediately sent a second ball on the post betrayed by the smoke, but without any other result than that of splintering the rock.
• There was a splintering even of the main timbers of the vehicle as the immense weight of the trunk crashed to the solid earth.
• At the fourth effort there was a sound of splintering wood, the lock gave, and the door swung back.
• Deep in the wood, wave after wave of motion seemed to spread until the fibres emitted a faint splintering sound.
• There followed a splintering sound of a pike-head in the same place.
• A splintering crash sounded in his ears as the lattice top of the arbor broke under him, and with one final clutch at the empty air he fell heavily upon the ground beneath.
• The staff upon which he had leaned was now a splintering reed, wounding as it bent under him.

Similar words containing SPLINTER without suffix ing

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