Something had to break; the small kernel of pride was too small to survive.

At last the conspiracy was left with just a small kernel of its once-mighty fleet.

That should have made her sad, but a small kernel of satisfaction curled in her heart.

Even a small kernel weighed a few hundred million tons.

But if not, then he'd harbored some small kernel of hope that she was alive and might return.

MS has been doing a lot of research into running an individual small kernel on each core.

Because this wild corn had such small kernels, researchers think it was a type of what would be called popcorn today.

I think there must have been hundreds of the small white kernels in those that I examined.

In fact, many experts said, even the wildest conspiracy theories can be built around a kernel of truth, however small.

In this way, a large system can be built on top of a small trusted kernel.