tiny splinter
Frequency: 7.010.5 per million words
Refers to a very small piece of a splinter.
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- A child got a tiny splinter in her finger from the old wooden fence.
- He carefully tried to remove the tiny splinter with tweezers.
- Even a tiny splinter can be quite painful if it's deep.
- She couldn't see the tiny splinter, but she could definitely feel it.
- The old floorboards were notorious for giving people tiny splinters.
- Be careful when handling broken glass; even a tiny splinter can cut you.
- After walking barefoot, he found a tiny splinter embedded in his heel.
- The microscope revealed a tiny splinter of metal in the sample.
- He winced as the nurse expertly extracted the tiny splinter.
- A tiny splinter from the antique chair became a nuisance during dinner.