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• A foot kiss leaves no shred of doubt about the pecking order.From the entry foot kiss
• He bought a neat new gadget for shredding potatoes.From the entry gadget
• That man didn't have a shred of common decency.From the entry common decency
• Crumple it up, light it on fire, or tear that mothereffer to shreds!2016, Holly Porter Johnson, Greg Johnson, Zero Down Your Debt: Reclaim Your Income and Build a Life You'll Love, Coral Gables, F.L.: Mango…. From the entry mothereffer
• Libel chill, without a shred of doubt, for all the channels went silent.2014 May 29, Saurav Datta, “Hush — slander is a criminal offence in India”, in Index on Censorship, UK, retrieved 29 May 2014. From the entry libel chill
• They would shred his flesh and swallow him, bones and all.2014, David Mains, Karen Mains, Tales of the Restoration: Tales of the Kingdom Trilogy Book 3. From the entry aaroo
• Raw hatred beat down, tearing through the last shreds of her frantic prayers.2009, John B. Olson, Powers. From the entry pridesome
• Like bananas, muufos are for shredding, dunking, squishing into the rest of the meal.2005 October 27, Naomi Wise, “Much Ado About Muufo”, in San Diego Reader, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2025. From the entry muufo
• I was more helpless and flew lightlier than a shred of thistledown among the stars.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry thistledown
• The storm-centre of a combined newspaper attack lasting for months, Daylight's character had been torn to shreds.1910 October, Jack London, chapter VIII, in Burning Daylight, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, part II, pages 181–182. From the entry iniquitous
• It fell in a flutter of dusty shreds and moths.2018, The Lesley Glaister Collection, Open Road Media. From the entry flutter
• I see them walking past its world's -end whine knowing this untongue shreds the tender air in perfect meaninglessness.2013, Simon Jarvis, Night Office. From the entry untongue
• He gripped some of the shreds and pulled off his vest and the shirt beneath it, his clothing disintegrating around him.2010, Thomas Mullen, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, Random House, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry vest
• Using heavy-duty dinner forks, pull the pork butt to shreds.2009, Ardie A. Davis, Chef Paul Kirk, America's Best BBQ, page 57. From the entry pull
• If, however, Boro let their guard slip, you can bet the Tigers will tear their guests for the day to shreds.2009, Ian Waterstone, Live Through the Dream: The Epic Journey Depicting Hull City's First Ever Season in the Top Flight of English…. From the entry boro
• The Siamese boy brought in plates containing wormy shreds of over-fried egg, seasoned with blackened bits of onion.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 417. From the entry wormy
• The influential boardsmith Al Merrick is pictured with a shred sled that would soon find its way beneath the feet of some local hot dogger.2023 September 22, Molly Young, “They Came, They Shaped, They Shredded”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry hot dogger
• Moving about 70 miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks.2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry bark
• If you can't find kadaifi, you can shred filo dough very, very thin yourself, being careful to keep the shreds straight for ease in working.2004, Susanna Hoffman, The Olive and the Caper: Adventures in Greek Cooking, Hachette, →ISBN. From the entry kadaifi
• In the studio with screeching glamcore act the Rapture, the DFA shreds the band's tracks and reconstructs them from the ground up.2002, SPIN, volume 18, number 7, page 86. From the entry glamcore
• This makes it hard to imagine a UFOlogist who’s managed to throw nearly every shred of credibility he has to the four winds.1992 November/December, Brian Siano, “Hanging’ with Zontar at the Grassy Knoll”, in The Humanist, volume 52, number 6, pages 43–46. From the entry ufologist
• A few moments later that malodorous mist tore apart like the shreds of an old shirt and drifted away on a cool night breeze.1990, Salman Rushdie, “The Dull Lake”, in Haroun and the Sea of Stories, published 2000, →ISBN. From the entry hocus and pocus
• Microfiche plates will be destroyed by burning, melting, chemical decomposition, pulping, pulverizing, shredding, or mutilization sufficient to preclude recognition or reconstruction of the information.1980, Federal Register 1980-03-11. From the entry mutilization
• The infant's ossature, the thin and brindled bones along whose sulcate facets clove old shreds of flesh and cerements of tattered swaddle.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 14. From the entry sulcate
• Concassed Chervil—Proceed as above, except that, instead of chopping it, compress it between the fingers and slice it with a shredding knife.1976, Auguste Escoffier, The Escoffier Cook Book: A Guide to the Fine Art of Cookery, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry concassed
• Orpheus is torn to bleeding shreds.1966, George Steiner, “Silence and the Poet”, in Language and Silence: Essays 1958–1966, London: Faber and Faber, published 2010, →ISBN…. From the entry winged word
• To tint coconut, just shake it in a jar with much-diluted food coloring until the shreds pick up the shade you want.1961 January 29, Pat Williams, “Family Pantry: Pots of Green and Confetti Coconut Make Kitchens and Cooking Fun”, in Sunday Courier and…. From the entry coco-nutty
• Pens should be removed and thoroughly cleaned periodically to remove dry ink incrustations, dirt, and any paper shreds that tend to clog penpoints.1959, Aerographer's Mate 3 & 2, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, page 604. From the entry penpoint
• In central Chiayi City, that would be a rice bowl topped with local chicken that’s pulled into soft shreds, and dressed with its own juices and fat.2019 June 11, Julia Moskin, “A New Generation of Chefs Reframes Taiwanese Cuisine in America”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Chiayi
• The procedure, called needle aponeurotomy or percutaneous fasciotomy, involves using the bevel of a hypodermic needle to essentially shred the ropes of constricting fascia characteristic of Dupuytren’s disease.2007 July 24, Kate Murphy, “Straightening Bent Fingers, No Surgery Required”, in New York Times. From the entry fasciotomy
• When old cars and trucks are sent to scrap yards for shredding to recover ferrous and non-ferrous metals, large quantities of non-metallic waste, referred to as autofluff, are generated.1995, American Chemical Society, Preprints of papers, volume 40, numbers 3-4. From the entry autofluff
• Now their powder would be cannon powder and gun powder, would be made into canister shot, and would propel balls into flesh, and would blow living men to shreds.1991, D. L. Carey, Distant Drums - Volume 1, page 523. From the entry gun powder
• All equipment used for removing the meat from the shell and for grinding, shredding, drying, classifying, and desiccating the coconut should be clean and free from pathogens.1975, Committee on Food Protection, Food and Nutrition Board, Division of Biological Sciences, Assembly of Life Sciences, National…. From the entry desiccate
• Here and there a yellow tormentil showed in the grass, a late harebell or a few shreds of purple bloom on a brown, crisping tuft of self-heal.1972, Richard Adams, chapter 50, in Watership Down, London: Macmillan. From the entry tormentil
• Thinking that something about those stories I used to carry around in my pocket when I was a kid, reading them to shreds, must have been a little skewjawed.1952, Zoe Lund Schiller, A Candle for a Star, page 209. From the entry skewjawed
• To get the egg drop–like shreds, get the soup up to a high boil, add the egg whites, and stir quickly, breaking them up with a whisk as you stir.1998, Todd English, Sally Sampson, The Figs Table, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 91. From the entry egg drop

Meaning of shred

1. noun A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
2. noun A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
3. noun A thin strand or wisp, as of a cloud, mist, etc.

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Questions about shred in a sentence

How do you use shred in a sentence?

Shred is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “There isn’t a shred of evidence to support his claims.”

What is a short sentence with shred?

“Orpheus is torn to bleeding shreds.”

What does shred mean?

Shred means a fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.