Tonight, those twisted fragments had suddenly coalesced into firm recollection, into the truth.

The merchant ship had been reduced to twisted fragments and molten slag.

Morrow bent to pick up a piece of hull metal; but the twisted, scorched fragment was still hot, and he withdrew his fingers hastily.

The silver gave way before its edge like string, and in a moment a few twisted fragments, shining on the floor, were all that was left.

A doctor dug into Ibrahim's thigh and removed three twisted fragments of an M-16 bullet, which he held up like trophies.

She fashioned a pretem dog from a twisted fragment of a stump whose roots projected like legs and a tail.

Of the white dome that had covered the bridge, only a few scorched, twisted fragments had been left behind.

Their findings, interpretations of blast streaks and twisted fragments of bomb components, are necessarily more subjective.

The last machines they found, cowering now in dim hiding holes, they smashed with great relish into small, twisted fragments.

All that remained of it now was a blackened patch on the floor and some twisted fragments scattered throughout the chamber.