shred - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- dignity: Only a couple in the cast emerge with any shreds of dignity.
Converse of object
- remove: Yes, in a move which removed any shred of masculinity I had left, she proposed to me on my birthday.
- produce: Never have they been required to nor been able to produce a shred of statistical evidence to back up that claim.
Object
- paper: By shredding paper you cut the tiny fibers that join together to make a sheet of paper.
- material: You should take simple steps such as shredding printed material.
Adjective modifier
- slight: What is absent is the slightest shred of belief that what is being said or being written or being thought is the Truth.
- tiny: Mark cannot offer one tiny shred of evidence to support his alleged sighting.
- single: Not a single shred of evidence has been produced.
- last: What angel stole the last shred of flesh from human bones?
Modifies a noun
- everything: Lone species, must be kept on its own or it will shred everything in sight.
Preposition: of
- decency: Pregnant with his child, when Borias died, the last shred of decency in Xena seemed to die too.
- credibility: I'm just trying to cling to some small shred of credibility by not quoting Star Wars at you.
- evidence: MULDER: Not a shred of evidence is exactly the evidence I'd hoped you'd find.
- proof: There is not a single shred of proof that we possess a soul.
- truth: There is not a shred of truth to Creation Science at all Creation Science is an abhorrent fraud.
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