Noun I got a sliver of wood stuck in my finger. Verb carefully slivered the rattan stems into strips for basketry
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The narrow window was previously a vent but was opened up to let in a sliver of natural light. Andrea Cooley, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Aug. 2022 That's just a sliver of the 684,000 bags mishandled this year, according to Air Travel Consumer Reports published by the Department of Transportation. Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 16 Aug. 2022 There, three antiabortion memorials stand in a shady sliver of lawn just across the way from a faux stream. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2022 Risling was an accomplished traditional dancer, college graduate and one-time aspiring law school student — was last seen in October soon after walking across a bridge in a remote sliver of the Yurok Reservation. Gillian Flaccus, ajc, 29 Apr. 2022 Quantifying which smartphone edges out the competition in the very top sliver of the top of a very big market is to Google and the whole ecosystem. Ewan Spence, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021 Thousands of family members who had stayed in the last sliver of land the group held were moved to the camp or prisons. Sarah El Deeb And Lolita C. Baldor, Star Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021 The peninsula was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until 1918; Italy until the end of the Second World War; Yugoslavia until its breakup in 1991; and independent Croatia (with a sliver in Slovenia). Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2022 Bloomberg was asking the network’s PR folks to possess instant familiarity with a procedural sliver in one of several pending cases against the network. Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 23 July 2022
Verb
Seed and sliver the peppers and drizzle with oil, vinegar and chopped fresh herbs to serve as a salad. Steven Raichlen New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021 Seed and sliver the peppers and drizzle with oil, vinegar and chopped fresh herbs to serve as a salad. Steven Raichlen New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021 Seed and sliver the peppers and drizzle with oil, vinegar and chopped fresh herbs to serve as a salad. Steven Raichlen New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021 Seed and sliver the peppers and drizzle with oil, vinegar and chopped fresh herbs to serve as a salad. Steven Raichlen New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021 Seed and sliver the peppers and drizzle with oil, vinegar and chopped fresh herbs to serve as a salad. Steven Raichlen New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021 Seed and sliver the peppers and drizzle with oil, vinegar and chopped fresh herbs to serve as a salad. Steven Raichlen New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021 Seed and sliver the peppers and drizzle with oil, vinegar and chopped fresh herbs to serve as a salad. Steven Raichlen New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021 Seed and sliver the peppers and drizzle with oil, vinegar and chopped fresh herbs to serve as a salad. Steven Raichlen New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English slivere, from sliven to slice off, from Old English -slīfan; akin to Old English -slǣfan to cut