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- noun Plural form of
shred .
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Examples
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Desperately, the pilot fought with the controls as the machine careered across the ruts and hollows, the rubber tearing off in shreds from the burst tire.
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Desperately, the pilot fought with the controls as the machine careered across the ruts and hollows, the rubber tearing off in shreds from the burst tire.
Spell of Magic – Part 7 « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2008
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The full-jib was also set, and, as it departed in shreds, the fore-topmast staysail was being hoisted.
CHAPTER XXXVIII 2010
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Watching these two clowns spending millions ripping each other to shreds is going to be entertaining to watch.
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The lining is pretty much in shreds, and most of the buttons are gone, but the coat is otherwise intact, so earlier this week I made a bee-line for one of my favorite shops in the whole wide world, Tender Buttons, Inc., at 143 East 62nd Street at Lexington Avenue, to see if I could obtain carefully matched replacement leather buttons, and sew them on.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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And lying as she did, the soles of her dilapidated moccasins, or rather the soles of her feet (for moccasins and stockings had gone in shreds), were turned upward.
CHAPTER 25 2010
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The Alliance's reputation, at least among parents, is in shreds and their credibility low.
Education Reform Group Pulls Council into Schools Brawl « PubliCola 2010
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Fred ♪ ♫ ♪ says: republican party in shreds because of the teaparty and their own failures.
Think Progress » Catholic nuns break with bishops and urge passage of health care reform. 2010
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Decorate with some thin shreds of coconut and slices of pineapple if wished.
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Her coronation of Bush left thousands of Iraqis dead, civil liberties of Americans in shreds, and the world's economy in shreds.
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