fragmentary

Modifying Another Word

• too: The original cloak is too fragmentary to prove the point.
• extremely: Records of prehistoric tsunamis for the Pacific West Coast of Canada and USA prior to 1700 AD are extremely fragmentary.
• rather: Compared with the rather fragmentary evidence for their arable farming, the pastoral aspect of things is fully recorded.
• highly: A highly fragmentary example from Rochford was accompanied by a string of amber beads some covered with gold leaf.
• often: Point out that scientific evidence is often fragmentary with pieces of the puzzle missing.
• very: The number of stray dogs whom the police will catch cannot be estimated from the returns which are very fragmentary.

Infinitive complement

• allow: No rims survive and the surviving sherds are too fragmentary to allow the form to be reconstructed.

Modifies a noun

• loomweights: A minimum number of thirty-five fragmentary loomweights were identified during assessment, although many more are likely to be represented.
• approx: Make the enemy cower before you, lest he rip open your back like a sack, 4 lines fragmentary approx.
• inscription: Two of the stones forming the seats carry fragmentary inscriptions.
• glimpse: The fragmentary glimpses of the creature force the audience to use their imagination.
• manuscript: The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music A project to digitize and enhance images of fragmentary manuscripts of medieval polyphonic music.
• nature: In part the problem lies in the fragmentary nature of the subject matter.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: Yet in spite of a sizeable literature on the cultural history of this period, our understanding of these developments has nonetheless remained fragmentary.
• become: The reader is expected to keep far too many significant details in mind, and the narrative becomes more fragmentary, less coherent.

Preposition: in

• other: Primary sources, numbingly copious in some areas, are scarce and fragmentary in others.