For once given the merest shred of hope, master, these farm girls will stick tighter than leeches, and thou'lt never be rid of them.

Wounded, barely able to maintain a psychic shield against the toxic dust, he had clung to the merest shred of hope.

A mere shred of sanity is of no value.

The Prince becomes steadily more worn until his princely armor is mere shreds and his body covered in bloody wounds.

Its clothing was mere shreds of no particular color.

Not fractured but snapped through the joint and dangling from what looked like a mere shred of skin.

To a man with Mr Sethna's readiness to disapprove, a mere shred of information was sufficient to form a full opinion.

"I think they can," she said, clearly seizing onto the merest shred of hope.

You offered not even the merest shred of proof that You're something other than a demented prankster or cruel torturer.

No, these were mere shreds of something less than evidence, he was obliged to conclude.