Indeed, couture represents a mere sliver of the fashion market.

Still, with nothing but a mere sliver of work to go on, there is no evaluating the artist.

Also, the slice of the property market represented by real estate stocks is a mere sliver.

The island was tiny, a mere sliver of wood barely rising above the waves.

A mere sliver of a room where the buzz never stops.

Unwelcomed and wordless, with his glass empty, he is a mere sliver of himself.

In the east there was a merest sliver of cold grey.

Drake stared at the doomed star, reduced now to a mere sliver of brilliance.

The sliver of wood in the wine cup remained a mere sliver.

Something about the question had confused the computer, and its answers came with mere slivers of confidence.