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Sentence Examples He turns aggressive and a verbal duel follows, shattering any semblance of peace that remains. Something tinkles inside you, shivering, quivering, and then it breaks, shattering like a crystal constellation. The gunmen sprayed the shopfront, shattering glass and pock-marking the walls as holidaymakers screamed and ducked. She let out the tiniest bit of pressure and power, sending him shattering out of her mind as his nose trickled blood. Another shattering sound, this one as the glass sliding door that led out to the backyard exploded inward in a shower of glass and metal. Michelle felt the painful sting as shards of glass showered over her, shattering upon the impact of Anna's body. People were thrown onto the coach ceiling and the shattering windows showered them with broken glass. The nerve shattering noise was from a petrol driven concrete and bitumen cutting saw so loud that all workers were wearing ear muffs. I can't accept that their intensity is itself a result of the shattering, although I have no problem believing that their uncontrollableness is. The yet untanned autumn faces of the foreigners grew paler as they heard glass shattering. I heard the shattering but not before I felt the hot liquid soaking my worm pajama pants and burning my skin. Rain splashed against the unyielding rock, shattering into droplets, fragments scattering everywhere. The furnishing is spartan but includes an immense grandfather clock which strikes the hour with a shattering noise. Even now, he heard shattering pieces of glass, frightful arguments, and spine-chilling words being spat across the room from each of his parents. Something smashed against Valshar's face, shattering into dust to splash a clear liquid over the face. The thought enraged her further and her fist hit the mirror, shattering it and splintering the wooden frame around it. In January, assailants sprayed the building with bullets, shattering doors and windows. Forster says that she is often amazed at how rarely shattering world events are deemed noteworthy by diary writers. Yeah, that's about it, nothing too earth shattering in the mix, so I've decided to just sum up my thoughts in a bunch of capsule reviews. A carful of teenagers, high on something, zoomed by, a sudden blast of raucous laughter shattering the warm peace of the night. Show More Sentences I did not and do not seek a Luther-like emotional trauma and a shattering onrush of new experience. The men followed him to the first stop light and then began kicking his cab, shattering the passenger side window and removing a rearview mirror. He stopped at the closed door, surprised to hear clattering and shattering from within. Diamonds have cleavage planes in four directions, making them highly susceptible to shattering when struck by a hard blow. The Freeport bus has been pelted with stones and missiles hurled from the road and even shot at with an air gun, shattering a window. She attempted to tear out of his grasp once again until she felt his hand tighten in a bone shattering clutch over her wrist. This sophisticated stand-up comedy confronts and surprises audiences by shattering myths about deafness and cross-cultural love. The finality of death of a young man with glowing prospects for success is a shattering blow indeed. The film is a shattering cry from the heart but it is rendered all the more effective by its sense of calm, controlled restraint. An impossibly high, ear-splitting sound emitted from the speakers, shattering almost all the windows in the stadium. He doesn't notice his peers' fearful presentiments, or the sharp clatter of something falling onto the floor, shattering the silence. The shattering and reclaiming of memory proceeds in similar ways for most of the central protagonists of the novel. But the shattering detonations on Friday sounded like heavy mortar fire, and they shook our house to its foundations. Can't cut it with any of our tools, even the diamond laser, without completely shattering it beyond use. Here the statues so emblematic of Greek identity are phantoms of a shattered and shattering present. The brilliant emeralds faded to a dull jade, the gold sunbeams shattering, giving way to dreary grey light. She landed on the display case, shattering the glass and splintering the wood base. But a distant acquaintance of mine, who has an African mother and a French father, came out with a shattering truth. A ball of fire erupted out, shattering the susurration with a jarring war cry. In the end, he accomplishes his mission, at the cost of shattering his own health and psyche. Show More Sentences He dashed the handset on a rock before stamping on the thin circuit boards and shattering them beyond use. Suddenly machine-gun fire raked the bridge and the pilothouse, shattering the safety windows. Flocks of magpie geese and whistling ducks, startled by the outboard, take to the air shattering the early morning silence with their calls. Drilled into his knee was a large hole where the bullet had smashed into his kneecap, shattering two bones. It had a shattering effect on those present and men and women, who normally take the dangers of racing in their stride, were reduced to tears. The panes are laminated glass, which resist shattering if struck by a falling branch. Blood thirst blurred his vision as he howled with rage, shattering the invisible shackles that restricted his body. The pace of the novel is simply breathtaking, with no let-up between one earth shattering event and the next. Time seemed to slow down as she fell, and as she hit the ground she felt the rip and tear of ligaments, heard the crack of bones shattering. He was practically yelling his opinions to his table mates and shattering the air with his laughter. I gazed at the mahogany of the desk, the long scar made there by a shattering coffee mug almost three years ago. She didn't do anything as she didn't want to make a scene in front of the media, shattering her public image. His voice was drowned by the shattering roar of a jet plane passing over the chimney pot. The tender scene made her more determined to help find this inhuman beast and stop him from shattering any more lives. Again and again and again it beat against the roof, shattering every tile it hit. Water doesn't compress and the piston in effect hits a wall, bending or breaking a con rod and possibly shattering the engine block. Finally the glass stopped over the letter E before toppling off the table and shattering on the stone floor. If there's one thing Taha's an extremist about, it's shattering the shackles of cultural isolation. Glasses and bottles were shattering throughout the room, exploding on the walls and cutting everyone in range. The plate soared through the air, slicing the twilight, before a bullet made contact with it, shattering the porcelain dish in midair. Show More Sentences People's attitudes do not remain static during an enormous economic crisis that is shattering their lives. Everyone's having a punt at shattering the race leader on the last real climb of the Tour. It is a depiction of shattering, chronic, inescapable pain and suffering that refuses to slide into self-pity. Rather predictably, the adoption of a much more rhetorically republican tone by the Irish government produced a shattering blow to such hopes. This shattering statistic crashed into Downing Street, where brows were being mopped and arrangements stood down. He and his wife had suffered a shattering blow when their only daughter died in the crash of a small plane. And there really ought not to be a dry eye in the theatre by the time it reaches its shattering conclusion. We will win victories we cannot now imagine, and live through shattering defeats. I can only begin to imagine the shattering impact of the killing on local people. The disaster also deals a shattering blow to the railway industry as a whole. The one thing I certainly wasn't prepared for was the shattering news that I was in perfect health. There may come to us some shattering calamity or dreadful disappointment or some moral failure. At this stage in their development, the camera focuses on the parents' reaction to the shattering news. They need to bounce back from the shattering blow of defeat at the weekend at Hull City. I've got my best bib and tucker on today, to mark the shattering climax of the project. A central plank of the neo-conservatives' war plan is shattering. We should roll the credits right now on this desensitised approach to the important responsibility of appropriate timing by Hollywood towards such shattering world events. Wolf skipped a flat stone across the surface, shattering the mirror. Based on St John's vision of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, it depicts War, Death and Famine in some of the most shattering solo and choral writing imaginable. They make odd squeaky noises and suddenly explode in girlful shouts, screams and hollers of exuberance shattering the perfect calm of a quiet summer night. Show More Sentences The shattering implications of Bellesiles' argument for scholars, policy-makers, and ruminators upon the national character are clearly evident, but he leaves them unstated. To get straight to the point without having to get past the two hulks at the door, he dived through the window, shattering it into a million pieces. A woman who claims she was abused as a child in a council-run care home, has come forward after reading the shattering accounts of others reported in the Yorkshire Post. Presumably, if you begin to bash my skull in, I wouldn't be out of my moral depth to send a shattering kick to your shins and, say, ruffle your hair up a bit. Attempting to make sense of what happened, Joel finds a letter from her but refuses to open it for fear of shattering his ideal of the perfect life they shared. Likewise, the band's trippy neo-psychedelic arrangements and raging, minimalist rock were not earth shattering revelations, at least not for this seasoned Toronto audience. Roman Yazymin, 29, who was using a sunbed in the solarium on the upper floors of the complex, said he heard a tremendous noise and the crash of shattering glass. The room echoed with sounds of yelling, crashing, and glasses shattering. A shattering tinkle echoes as the ice pieces cover the floor. However, the contender did manage some shattering attacks of his own. She covered her ears with the piercing sound of shattering glass. Just as shattering violence affects people, it affects whole peoples, busting up the basic assumptions and givens in a society that usually prevent thoroughgoing change. With a stealthy leap, Percival broke through the window, shattering pieces of glass over the floor in front of the window, and on the roof right outside it. I broke them, shattering the pieces, cutting my hand with the glass. The fire in his eyes flared and with a single hand he flipped the table halfway across the room, the teapot and cups shattering in a twinkle of light. But her success came despite a shattering letter from the Home Office the day before she sat two Maths exams at Thomas Rotherham College in South Yorkshire. Some describe the knowledge of having to undergo an amputation as the most shattering moment in their lives while others disclose having privately contemplated suicide. Then a clutch of long sharp icicles broke from a chandelierlike mass above his head and fell, shattering around the piano like glass swords. Strategic setbacks combined with a shattering personal blow when, on 12 May 1915, Venetia Stanley announced her engagement to Edwin Montagu. Ernst slipped and dropped his torch on the flagstones, shattering the bulb and plunging us into darkness. Show More Sentences They slam into the sheets of bullet-proof glass in the sangars, shattering the reinforced panes. The organisation is investigating the vehicles after receiving several complaints about shattering panoramic sunroofs. Jealousy rears its head, shattering friendship before mutual desire finally brings the threesome back together for a joltingly abrupt ending. BushWas George Bush speaking of some truly shattering event in American affairs? I love to flabbergast the little-minded by shattering their preconceptions about my nationality and gender. He fell between the two tracks, but the 'Rocket ran over his leg which was fouling the rail, shattering it. And then, without missing a beat on his pussy-pumpin' action, he donkey punches her with the pot, shattering it and embedding shards of glass in her scalp. In order to traverse these objectified notions of self, one must subjectify that otherness by shattering the fundamentally limiting and incomplete ego. The mouldboard is responsible for lifts and turns the furrow slice and sometimes for shattering it, depending on the type of moldboard, plowing depth and soil conditions. Despite their shattering Euro exit at Anfield, Giggs believes Arsene Wenger's men could be at their most dangerous with their game against United an all-or-nothing clash. In the adjacent corridor was an automatically closing fire door which slammed incessantly with an ear shattering bang throughout the day and night. This keeps the glass from cracking or shattering due to thermal stress. Examples from Classical Literature Through the black fir-forestThunder harsh and dry, shattering down the snow-flakesOff the curdled sky. Its shifting stances in the 1930s and during the war had exposed its toadyism to Moscow, shattering the illusions of many party members. But the sudden, shattering events of September 11 left that question largely unresolved during the late October session in Baden-Baden. This year McGwire has an excellent shot at shattering Roger Maris's 1961 record of 61 home runs in a single season. The Hive shook beneath the shattering thunder of a stuck-down quilt being torn back. The Singletons shoved him through the glass door of the takeaway, shattering it, then kicked him savagely as he lay helpless on the floor. She hated Joe for shattering this and reminding her that she was his employee. Almost at the instant of impact I turned my bows upward, and then with a shattering jolt we were in collision. They are clattering through the halls now, drinking the wines, shattering the crystal and glass, slashing the portraits. The roar of our rifles was constantly shattering the world-old silence of stupendous canons upon which the eye of man had never before gazed. The shattering anguish in his mother's voice startled Martin, stirred within him tumultuous, veiled sensations. Wolfe pushed the Allegro along at a fair pace but never lost the intricate contrapuntal workings of the score, reaching some quite shattering fortissimos at times. Nevertheless, it fell full on the breast of the captain Faku, shattering his bones, and sweeping him from the ledge of rock on to the slope beneath, where he lay still. By some extraordinary chance the ball struck it full on the back of the neck, shattering the spinal column, and that giraffe went rolling head over heels just like a rabbit. Lluch continues to pursue a novel argument by shattering the standard dualism that presents nationalist visions of sovereignty as either secessionist or non-secessionist. Allocaturs, filing of bills in Chancery, decrees of sale, are legal chain-shot or bomb-shells that can never hit a solitary mark, but must fall with widespread shattering. Find more words! 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