fragmentary

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• Digging revealed part of a shallow pit, but fragmentary bones visible in the pit were too fragile to remove or study closely.

• Staudinger uses these items to engage in wordplay, ponder the role of the artist and pen a fragmentary autobiography.

• The Lotus and the Storm turns out to be a grand, haunted melodrama with elements of camp, delivered in fragmentary reveries.

• Literature has been in a plundered, fragmentary state for a long time.

• Francis Watson argued that all of the fragmentary sentences preserved on the papyrus are also found in the Gospel of Thomas.

• The author's statistical claims were based on wild extrapolations from a few fragmentary and unreliable sources.

• I took phone calls from the field, with fragmentary updates.

• The abbey was founded by William the Lion in 1178, but war, fire and fanaticism have left it sadly fragmentary.

• Such advice will not serve as a screen if based on a fragmentary, incomplete statement of facts.

• Yes: she remembered now, though it still seemed like a dream—a fragmentary, misty dream.

• Such are the fragmentary references that have survived concerning the career of the first Cambridge printer.

• While Madame Bastien was speaking David was hastily glancing over the writings his hostess had just handed to him.