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How to pronounce shard in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms fragment, sherd
Type of piece
Has types potsherd

Examples of shard

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Yet there remains a bluster where there should be a shard of terrible psychosis.
From the metro.co.uk
Sometimes you'll slip in a little indirection, a shard of truth to throw me off.
From the sacbee.com
McMullen's clipper made a loud click each time he snapped off a shard of toenail.
From the omaha.com
Top with a dollop of whipped cream and garnish with a shard of the candied bacon.
From the post-gazette.com
A shard of glass hit Miss Creed's friend Stephanie Shane in the leg, cutting her.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
People can always use their hands, finger nails, a staple, a shard of glass, etc.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
The shard is part of the Rorschach-esque fabric of this most protean of cities.
From the guardian.co.uk
Then he chews the glass one shard at a time into a fine powder and swallows it.
From the time.com
Katsuro then commits suicide by slitting his throat with a shard of broken glass.
From the en.wikipedia.org
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  • A broken piece of a brittle artifact
  • Shard (Shard Bishop) is a mutant character in the Marvel Comics universe.
  • Database sharding is a method of horizontal partitioning in a database or search engine. Each individual partition is referred to as a shard or database shard.
  • Shard by Shard Studios is an anthropomorphic heroic fantasy role-playing game set in Du00E1rdu00FCnah, the World of the False Dawn, a secondary world fantasy setting that is influenced by oriental culture.
  • Shard London Bridge, previously known as London Bridge Tower, and also known as the Shard of Glass , 32 London Bridge, and The Shard is a supertall skyscraper under construction in Southwark, London, United Kingdom. ...
  • A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig; A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery; A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle; An instance of an MMORPG that is ...
  • (Shards) Glass that has been cut or broken from a sheet of glass. Also referred to as confetti.
  • (shards) from Anne McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern novels. Used as a substitute for "shit", but apparently refers to the shell of a broken dragon egg.
  • Shards are broken fragments of glass artefacts including perfume jars, jugs and serving or storage vessels. Very common throughout the Roman period.