The purified DNA is then subjected to sonication to shear it into random fragments.

It was like anywhere and nowhere - like a small Manchester or a random fragment of Leeds.

Armadiel picked up random fragments of the boy's unconscious thought and examined them with interest.

Instead, a zone of breccia or cataclasite is formed, with the rock milled and broken into random fragments.

I lay listening to the curses and laughter of the square/cube players, the random fragments of muttered conversation, until the lights went out for the night.

Ms. Luken's impressive large paintings look like they are gatherings of random fragments from nature and from the world of wizardry.

They were weak, random fragments of overspill from the communication beams of starships entering orbit above Lalonde.

She could follow mere snatches, random fragments, of the stories.

As she peered into the crystal she saw how its facets and internal structure shattered the simple image of her office into a hundred random fragments.

This method requires the target DNA to be broken into random fragments.