shard

Preposition: of

• pottery: Shards of Roman pottery from the site are on display in the cafe.
• glass: On the driving seat, between shards of broken glass, was a small card.
• metal: His body is bruised and flecked from shards of metal.
• ice: Shards of ice formed by our breath rain down on us.
• light: Within, high stained glass windows of shimmering beauty throw rainbow shards of light down the aisle.

Converse of object

• find: By strange coincidence the very next day we found a shard of attic ware.
• fly: Anyone nearby was liable to be struck by flying shards of cast iron two inches thick.
• send: The blast, felt up to 30 miles away, sent shards of glass flying over six blocks.

Adjective modifier

• jagged: Jagged shards of rock pursued him, bounding along, smashing flat whole swathes of jungle.
• broken: Broken shards stabbing every time you breathe, cutting you up inside.
• sharp: Hell, what's the big deal about a bunch of large, sharp, metal shards ripping open your flesh?
• small: The pavement around the public telephone box outside the office block was carpeted in small safety glass shards of the booths own empty windows.
• few: He crashes it down and a few stray cement shards ricochet off the brick wall behind me.
• many: Both stages resulted in finds of many mocha ware shards.

Noun used with modifier

• pottery: Inside were rows of pottery shards, each with a tiny white label.
• fx: Page 13 1 [ A bunch of crystal shards appears in Housenki's mouth. ] fx shards flash 2 [ The shards blast out.
• glass: The pavement around the public telephone box outside the office block was carpeted in small safety glass shards of the booths own empty windows.
• crystal: Secrets which are encoded in crystal shards retrieved from the sunken city.
• metal: Hell, what's the big deal about a bunch of large, sharp, metal shards ripping open your flesh?
• pot: Dark Age centered on 600 AD, timber building, evidence of metal workings, substantial metal working, Roman Samian pot shards.