FRAGMENTARY


Meaning of FRAGMENTARY in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I have only a fragmentary recollection of the house where I grew up.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But I think it also reflected his sense of the inherent fragmentary nature of life.

Other fragmentary legislation is to be found in recent years, e.g. the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975.

The beginnings of cable and satellite policy showed the dangers of such a fragmentary approach.

The novel's quest-story takes us into a mosaic of texts, parodies, translations, allusions and fragmentary quotations.

The palaeontologist is like a detective trying to reconstruct a full story from a few fragmentary clues.

The whole text has a fragmentary , indefinite quality.

We also know that the fossil record is fragmentary in the extreme.

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