Sliver used in a sentence

Sliver in a sentence as a noun

But now that he's dead, there's no longer any sliver of chance.

Questions and answers are jammed into a narrow sliver of content area.

The only audience where that is an issue is salespeople, but that's a sliver of the tablet buying market.

I know, from the point of view of your budget, it really was, but...The compiler writers were serving a tiny sliver of a market.

"If there is a sliver of probability that I can be killed due to my inaction, I will act and I will do my best to avoid that risk.

That is, for all the ink spilled over who can afford what and how much money is spent where, there are tons of kids right now graduating without a sliver of hope for a job.

"The GPL doesn't ensure you get a return on an investmentit ensures that you get only a small sliver of a much larger pie of possible contributions.

Sliver in a sentence as a verb

He's going to bust his *** to make the code work, for a salary half of his market rate, and in return he gets a tiny sliver of the company that gives him no real control, on a 4-year vesting cycle.

Nobody ever will here, because the amount of information we have is the tiniest sliver of what actually matters: data on Yahoo employees working from home.> If you disagree.

I'd much rather walk into a meeting with a VC with 7,400+ pre-orders for my expensive gadget tucked under my arm than a list of people who ponied up a thousand bucks for a sliver of equity in my company.

The PTO's behavior is based on legislation, court interpretation and a small sliver of their own interpretation after the direction they receive from those more powerful government bodies.

It only matters that it says something which, when added to existing data sources, is a tiny sliver more accurate than the bank's internal risk scoring when aggregated over 100,000 people who happen to include you in them.

The entire walled-garden-curated-experience versus open-standards-loose-confederation-of-providers generates heated discussion only among a small, small sliver of geeks.