: cut or torn into shreds
shredded cheese
shredded paper
shredded chicken
Make a worm farm by drilling tiny holes in the bottom of the bucket. Add worms, leaves, grass clippings, peat moss and damp shredded newspaper.—
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All sizes of Raw Farm block and shredded cheese packages.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
Spread a couple of inches of damp bedding material, such as peat moss, shredded paper, or good old-fashioned dirt, in the bottom of the container.
—Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
The sun's core is a nuclear furnace of shredded atoms, and its inner two-thirds make up a radiative zone of gamma-ray photons, so the solar magnetic field cannot be generated there.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2026
Plasma boosts metal recovery The process works by exposing shredded battery material, known as black mass, to an energized gas or plasma for about 15 minutes.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 25 Mar. 2026
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
Spread a couple of inches of damp bedding material, such as peat moss, shredded paper, or good old-fashioned dirt, in the bottom of the container.
—Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
The sun's core is a nuclear furnace of shredded atoms, and its inner two-thirds make up a radiative zone of gamma-ray photons, so the solar magnetic field cannot be generated there.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2026
Plasma boosts metal recovery The process works by exposing shredded battery material, known as black mass, to an energized gas or plasma for about 15 minutes.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 25 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for shredded
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“Shredded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shredded. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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