ADJ
- fine, thin
- tattered
- the tattered shreds of their flag
PREP
- in/into ~s
- Cut the orange peel into fine shreds. (figurative) Their economy is in shreds
- ~ of
- leaving just a few shreds of cloth
PHRASES
- cut/rip/tear sth to shreds (figurative)
- Their case was torn to shreds by the defence lawyer
ADJ
- every
- With her had gone every shred of hope he had for the future
- last, remaining
- She was hanging on to the last remaining shreds of her reputation
PREP
- ~ of
- There is not a shred of doubt in my mind that we will win
PHRASES
- not a/the slightest shred of sth, not/without a shred of evidence