How To Use Shattered In A Sentence

Rescue teams worked desperately to restore utilities in the area shattered by the hurricane.
The nearby street was littered with shattered vehicles, pieces of glass, bricks, mangled steel and scraps of clothing.
This creates an illusion that is shattered whenever adverse effects however rare are brought to light.
But I go nightclubbing, I dance, I really enjoy it and I try not to worry, although I know the next day I'm going to be absolutely shattered.
At times, however, music of great austerity and purity is shattered by painful, pounding discords.

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They had to spend at least 18 months living in rented accommodation while their shattered homes were rebuilt.
The stores that faced out into the streets did so with wide, gaping maws created by the shattered state of their glass windows.
it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage
Ash was now falling on to the ships, darker and denser the closer they went, together with pieces of pumice and rocks that were blackened and shattered by fire.
It showed the twisted remains of a wrecked car, a shattered windshield, and a small body face down, arms and legs wildly akimbo.
The moment was abruptly shattered by the sound of Mia's loud voice.
I was shattered to see how the disease had extended its deathly grip.
Gray baled out of his shattered Z3060, wounded in the left thigh.
The glass she had been holding shattered on the ground, falling from her nerveless fingers.
My inertia in not pushing it backwards into a safe zone is as guilty for the shattered glass as the treacherous wind.
The coffin shattered into a million pieces while the hind legs and the wings of the hippogriff vaporized.
Transnational links were shattered by closing frontiers and the tide of nationalist sentiment sweeping through society.
Then he passed out, dropping the piece of glass, which shattered into a thousand pieces.
Goodhue shattered the glass ceiling as the first female publisher at Time Inc.
He played it as he shaped it: the last low string whose reverberations set his own sword belling in anguish and shattered every other weapon inside and out of the halt Silence settled like old dust over the room. Harpist in the Wind
The life of two brothers is shattered by the sudden appearance of their father, who they know only from a 10-year-old photograph.
The pot shattered as it hit the floor.
The worst of the looting was over, and there was enough calm in the shattered streets for her to feel the popular elation, despite the fear and violence that lay below the surface.
Marriages have been sundered, careers wrecked, confidences shattered, boners unsprung. Pieces of Lou, pt. 2
his world was shattered
A machine gun shattered the quiet.
Leading from the front, as he stepped ashore and in the act of drawing his sword, grapeshot shattered his right elbow.
As Radcliffe shattered a world record in each one it appeared that she became more and more strangled by her own expectations and those of others.
Then his father draws back the blankets to reveal two shattered legs, the bones held in place by external fixators. Times, Sunday Times
The schism that produced competitive health care professions, primarily traditional medicine, osteopathy and chiropractic shattered and scattered fundamental principles for the relief of pain.
The mirror shattered into a thousand pieces.
Newton's absolute time may feel like an accurate description of the beast that rules our daily lives, but in science the notion was shattered in 1905 by Einstein's special theory of relativity.
It can repair the shattered beliefs and, sometimes, the ailing soul of an organization gone awry.
Personal leadership must still be exercised on these most ferocious of battlefields as we face shattered remnants and irregulars.
I have just shattered the widely-shared romantic vision of HBM seated, with her laptop, at a tidy secretaire in an oak-panelled library, clad in stylish loungewear and sipping tea from a china cup. How To Lose a Friend in 10 Months
His right hand, clenched into an iron mallet, battered desperately at the fearful face bent toward his; the beast-like teeth shattered under his blows and blood splattered, but still the red eyes gloated and the taloned fingers sank deeper and deeper until a ringing in Turlogh's ears knelled his soul's departure. People of the Dark
And after structuralism / post-structuralism broke everything, how could anything be shattered more completely than it had been already?
And if not for numerous strange goals he allowed this season, the shutout record may have been long shattered.
I'm shattered that the Borders expedition didn't happen, but I guess there has to be some reason to return one day.
Shattered glass on the bus seats greeted the first driver to arrive for work, who discovered that vandals had broken in through a hole in the fence.
Turning to Dimitri, her once stoic expression was shattered as a brief smirk lightened her face.
If Brit-pop's in fact dead, there's a nation of lonely-hearted saps ready to pick up the pieces of shattered hearts from the rainy country and lead a world of crybabies to salvation.
Suddenly the atmosphere is shattered by blood-curdling screams.
The glass shattered when I dropped it.
A bike-mad youngster who was geared up to compete against adults in motorcycle trials has had his dreams shattered by thieves.
The enduring mythology of the Highland Clearances in which reluctant emigrants were thrown aboard cattle boats and sent on horrific transatlantic crossings by evil lairds has been shattered in a new study.
Hollywood is a porcelain skin over a pockmarked landscape of shattered dreams and when a tsunamic wave of pus from old and new wounds surges no medications on earth can prevent the utter destruction it wreaks. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The notion that only young, long-legged beauties choose sexy legwear is shattered by the survey, commissioned by manufacturer Aristoc.
Her mirror that hung on the door was broken - shattered into hundreds of pieces as if fell to the ground.
Your peace will be shattered when the tourist season gets underway .
The man suffered a shattered left femur from the gunshot, according to authorities. New Case Targets Murder Convicts
In one of her famously impassioned speeches - between threats to bloody noses - she blasted what she called the objectification, disrespect and "violence" toward women, slamming her fist so hard against the lectern that her bracelet shattered. NYT > Home Page
The trust of the disinherited was further shattered and disowned by the disingenuous attitude of the state.
It landed on an outjutting rocky snag in the center of a large hot pool and shattered noisily. The Moment Of The Magician
Windows were shattered in the blast, at Farnham Street in the Catholic lower Ormeau area.
It is glorious weather, the waterway full of small boats, some being rowed, some under sail, when suddenly there is the sound of shouting as the peaceful afternoon is shattered.
Beginning with a gorgeous title sequence during which we watch History Professor George (Burton) and his saucy and sauced wife Martha (Taylor) walking back from a function drunk and cackling, the movie immediately places us in their dark, disconsolate universe -- one of shattered hopes, nihilism, and dipsomaniacal game playing. Kim Morgan: Ugly Talents: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
From the garage he took a felling axe with a three foot handle and shattered his parents' skulls.
My innocent pleasure in those evenings shattered when a local gossip spread the word that I was on the prowl for other women's husbands, one in particular.
Despite her stoutness, she suffered from what she called shattered nerves. The Little Lady of the Big House
He was sitting with his back to the window, sunlight behind his shoulder haloing his fur in a nimbus of white light, being shattered into a hundred pieces by the facets of the cut crystal goblet in his hand.
Their boat was shattered into matchwood against the rocks and sank instantly.
The damage was so extensive the front door was shattered and has had to be replaced.
And Isaac Davis, and John Young, and others of their waywardly adventurous ilk, with six-pounder brass carronades from the captured Iphigenia and Fair American, had destroyed the war canoes and shattered the morale of the King of Lakanaii's land - fighters, receiving duly in return from Kamehameha, according to agreement: Isaac Davis, six hundred mature and fat hogs; John Shin-Bones
Between them, the three bombs have shattered the lull in violence that followed the poll.
This completely shattered my pride and punctured my ego and self-respect.
The quartermaster of the battalion in the fort immediately sprang forward, and seizing the fallen flag tore it from its hold and leapt on to the traverse, where he stood under the heavy fire immovable, until a jurymast was rigged and raised in the place of the shattered staff. The War in America
At times, however, music of great austerity and purity is shattered by painful, pounding discords.
Their formidable presence, clad in gray uniforms with epaulettes and badges, and the silence pervading their stares, shattered a comfort barrier that held my mind in check and kept others from noticing a sign of personal distress.
When Debbie entered the tiny white room, the sharp click of her too-high heels shattered the almost-silence.
The tragic death has shocked and saddened the local community and shattered his family.
No one doubts the scale of the task in reuniting a fractured country and rebuilding a shattered economy.
The road soon funnels down between the hills to Corfe Castle, one of the most striking historic sites in the west – shattered stonework silhouetted against the sky as it stands on top of its steep mound, above the village's slate roofs, guarding the gap in the range of hills against intruders from the coast. Country diary: Isle of Purbeck
Before he could look up, a strong, clear, voice shattered the silence of the room.
While the Jewish DPs strove to rebuild their shattered lives and played a critical role in the struggle to establish the State of Israel, the non-Jewish DPs had no clear ideological or other mission other than to exist while waiting, mostly passively, for the next chapter of their lives to unfurl. Menachem Rosensaft: Review: The Long Road Home, The Aftermath of the Second World War
With the morale of the English troops shattered by the death of their leader, the battle ended in defeat for the English, although the housecarls and thegns continued to fight to their deaths.
Massive demolition is their calling card, not only the rubble, shattered glass and fire they themselves make from everyday household items, but their own blasted body parts which occur when the X-Men tear into them. MIND MELD: What Are The Coolest Robots in Science Fiction?
Boisterous crowds dispelled the darkness of night with fireworks as crackers shattered the stillness of the night.
The shattered side window was punched through and a gun barrel appeared.
Witnesses said the wreckage of a Mercedes car lay in the road, its glass shattered.
He almost died, and had to crawl his way to help despite broken bones and a shattered jaw.
Exhaustion had taken her into a dreamless slumber when a loud crash shattered her sleep. Western Man
Luckily for Clyde, the beaker had shattered between his sweatshirt and his scrub top. DO NO HARM
It is a sound we hear again later in the cycle - in Siegfried, Act I, Scene iii - when the eponymous hero reforges his father's shattered sword Notung.
The Elves begin to rebuild their shattered land.
The peace of the afternoon was suddenly shattered by a police siren.
In her present fragile state, an inquisition, nomatterhow well-intentioned, would have shattered her into a million pieces.
It's hard to block out flashbacks of President Jimmy Carter's 1977 New Year's Eve statement that Iran under the shah was an island of stability in a troubled region - only months before that stability was shattered. Could the next Mideast uprising happen in Saudi Arabia?
But another attack, which took place on Easter Sunday, saw a second window shattered, outraging local people and parishioners.
A military training exercise inside the building during the Persian Gulf War in 1990-91 resulted in all the windows' being shattered.
Her skin and hair were dry and uncared for, but her eyes had the glittery, splintery look of shattered mirrors. BARN BLIND
I've just done the weekly shop for six hungry people-and yet again I feel shattered.
The finances of the Balearic Islands, which have been led by a staunchly pro-monarchy government in recent years, have been shattered by Spain's property bust. World Watch
He says that after he failed to get through in his first attempt, he was shattered.
For six years, he makes a peaceful life for himself in the Canadian wilderness, but this life is shattered after the murder of his girlfriend by his brother Victor Creed (later Sabertooth ).
Their names had been etched into the glass but the pane was shattered by hooligans who climbed onto scaffolding and kicked in the windows.
When within about a thousand yards of the two gunboats, the deserted steamers blew up with such force, that, even at that great distance, the glass was shattered in the "Conestoga," and her woodwork seriously damaged. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)
He could make out the name carved into the shattered marble—BARONNE. Etched in Bone
Alain cupped his ears as the creature's high pitched scream shattered every window pane in the room.
We were totally shattered after the long journey.
A loud scream shattered the silence.
Tariq was flung to the ground amid shattered glass and looked up to see his front door had been blown off its hinges.
BELGRADE - A grenade shattered windows at the U.S. embassy in central Belgrade night but caused no casualties, police said. ANC Daily News Briefing
It had been shattered along with the glass tank, the debris of which lay scattered on the carpet.
The force of the blast blew the roof off the white taxi van and shattered the windscreens of passing vehicles.
The explosion shattered all the windows.
Thousands of working class people had their confidence and hopes shattered by the despised old grammar school system.
The operation's international impact was immense as aerial photographs of the shattered dams haemorrhaging millions of tons of water were flashed around the world.
Speaking about his sacking today, Mr Hughes said he was shattered by the decision.
It clanged on the concrete and the bulb shattered with a tinkle.
The Wolf Age, Fans of Norse mythology will recognize the reference to the Voluspa: A spear-age, a sword-age: shields are shattered. Mihir’s Anticipated 2010 Books
The dragon shattered into the shadows as the scintillation of explosive elemental forces raced out and away from the impact.
It is desperately sad news and I am absolutely shattered to hear it.
He admitted, however, that the latest blast shattered the peace enjoyed by the local people since the December peace deal.
I wasn't just disappointed, I was absolutely shattered.
Her shattered rib cage began to move with sudden, juddering movements as her damaged body struggled to continue to function. FREE EXCERPT: Hater by David Moody (Chapter 3)
Constance walked over to the shattered window which was now covered with a sheet of plywood.
Visions of myself drifting around elegantly in neutrals like Meryl Streep in ‘Out Of Africa’ were soon shattered, however, by a trip to various adventure travel shops.
Rescue teams worked desperately to restore utilities in the area shattered by the hurricane.
The faction of Moscow loyalists essentially waited and picked up the pieces of the shattered organization.
The love triangle became the subject of local gossip and he was shattered.
This wouldn't be a problem if there was more to Shattered Memories than this so-called adaptable horror. Computer And Video Games
The victorious but spent fanners and craftsfolk retreated through the shattered gate to the fringe of the forest, leaving the terminal cleansing of the monastery to the rampaging pit bull-bull. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
March's net long-term inflow was roughly three times the $47.1 billion inflow in February and shattered a previous record set in May 2007. Latest news _ Budapest Business Journal _ BBJ_online
The mirror had been broken, its shattered pieces falling onto the wooden chest and green carpeting.
The lamp shattered at their feet.
The detritus of the shattered building had now settled, and with each step he levitated upwards with increasing ease, his feet finding footholds without effort. Ballardian » Ballardian/Savoy Microfiction competition winners
This shattered the glass pane that showered and cut the two women.
Close to the tree was a shattered tumbler, which police believe Elizabeth used to try to defend herself.
Rescue teams worked desperately to restore utilities in the area shattered by the hurricane.
On Friday a rail shattered, causing a derailment near Hammersmith, west London.
Once equality becomes thinkable, that is, once the notion that inequalities are eternal and unchangeable is shattered, people begin to seek equality relentlessly and compulsively.
Only the soft crests of waves slapping at the shore and the crunch of sand beneath her foot shattered the silence around her.
But along with my innocent childhood belief in the resurrection of rock music and the essential goodness of mankind, this myth was shattered too.
But nothing of the kind was visible, and the spars, masts, and other wreckage which had reached the rocks had been shattered into "matchwood" by frequent gales. The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
Assumptions of the world as fair and manageable are shattered by an unsolvable mystery that can go on for a lifetime.
At a book signing in Edinburgh, I saw him in the flesh, and I was shattered by the experience.
The quiet of Shrewsbury Abbey is shattered when Brother Oswin, sent on an errand to deliver medicines, is discovered in a nearby forest, beaten within an inch of his life.
Friends of missing yachtie Paul Van Rensburg are "shattered" that a search of his yacht this morning failed to find any sign of him. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
The dream was shattered after Versailles and the subsequent treaty fight.
The pot shattered as it hit the floor.
Frantic efforts by the rump Soviet state to reform its armed forces and rebuild its shattered economy resulted in a remarkable revival in the later part of 1942.
The couple married in 2002 after their original wedding plans were shattered because of the devastating blow to Louise's health.
On the night of the 6th, a tremendous sea struck her on the stern, stove in all the dead-lights, and washed them into the cabin, lifted the taffrail a foot or more out of its place, carried away the afterpart of the larboard bulwark, shattered the whole of the stern-frame, and washed one of the steersmen away from the wheel. Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People
She poured the water and turned to put it back in the fridge but as she opened the door the jug slipped from her grasp and shattered on the floor with a loud smash.
Ladon, Pheres, Demodocus; his gleaming sword shears off Strymonius 'hand as it rises to his throat; he strikes Thoas on the face with a stone, and drives the bones asunder in a shattered mass of blood and brains. The Aeneid of Virgil
All my illusions of a perfect family had been shattered.
Somewhere behind the east wing of the castle glass shattered.
It is quite different from the shattered fragments found in the analytic cubism of his contemporaries Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.
But the sombre peace is shattered when a bomb blast is heard shuddering in the distance and the spooks must answer the call of duty.
She made a phenomenal contribution to the development of the centre and staff are shattered by her loss.
He hit the ground incredibly hard and shattered both his legs but was otherwise unharmed aside from some bruising.
Anyway, nothing happening, France attacking but everyone's shattered apart from Ribery.
The Temple of Luxor is downtown, and nearby are the Colossi of Memnon, Karnak Temple, Hatshepsut's Temple, the Valley of the Kings, the Valley of the Queens, and the Ramesseum, with the gigantic shattered statue of Ramses II that inspired Shelley to write "Ozymandias. Letter From Egypt
Michelle and her children's deaths have shattered their families and left them distraught.
Isolde had been healer to more of them than she could count, and she knew how very, very rarely did such men pick up the shattered pieces of themselves and walk on with their spirits not unscarred exactly, but at least whole. Dark Moon of Avalon
This shattered the public's confidence in the railway system.
The victims were indoors and were hit by debris from shattered windows.
Sometimes their road was a mere rambla, or dry bed of a torrent, cut deep into the mountains and filled with their shattered fragments. Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
They are the rays of sunshine burning through the haze of an Olympics snarled by glitches and shattered by a bomb.
‘We are absolutely shattered they are pulling the building down,’ said Mr Cooper.
Under my feet the flinty soil shattered into a thousand arrows pointing a hundred different ways.
The glass top shattered in a million pieces flying across the room like shrapnel.
Any belief New Zealand had in repeating the victory they secured against Australia 12 months ago was shattered by the decisiveness of the Kangaroos' start to the second half.
He was shattered and bewildered by this trenchant criticism.
There was a burst of blue-orange flame and the roadster's front fenders disintegrated in a spray of shattered Fiberglas, the hood peeling back to smash into the windshield. The Devil's Bedpost
He speculated that Katherine therefore had fallen out of a shattered window, adding: ‘If she had been wearing a seatbelt, that wouldn't have happened.’
The window pane shattered by a mishit baseball, a lamp knocked over by a careless child, or a plate dropped in the kitchen are already broken. Jack Canfield: Raise Children, Not Flowers!
He talked about the country's ephemeral unity being shattered by the defeat.
After all, it included anyone who wanted to sing, from the tone-deaf bass who grumbled his monotone to the screeching soprano whose high C shattered glass.
Some of them are psychologically shattered from the mistreatment they got, locked up in basements or wherever, kind of the Jose Padillas of the animal world. Matthew Yglesias » The Drug-Cougar Connection
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I wasn't just disappointed, I was absolutely shattered.
The force of the blast blew the roof off the white taxi van and shattered the windscreens of passing vehicles.
The Maori guy completely shattered the beef spines with his big taiaha - a five-foot battle club. May 2009
Enron turned out to be the first of a wave of similar accounting fraud cases which shattered investor confidence and sent stock markets nosediving downwards last year.
Their wordless improvisations and clear world music influences have shattered, reconfigured and picked up lyrics, culminating in a sprawling album that comes off as some kind of art-damaged radio play.
My burst shattered the wall above his head as he took the stairs full tilt; sending wood chips flying, half-deafening me and filling the tiny hallway with the acrid stench of cordite and hot lead.
Often traumatized people try to restore the lost illusions shattered by trauma through some form of what I have called resurrective ideology . Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden
That probably doesn't mean shattered windows and office occupations, but more likely petitions and free food giveaways like one held last March.
The mare crashed into the rockaway on one side and the bay shattered the swingletree on the other with the forewheel of our buggy. A Circuit Rider's Wife
A white teacup slipped from coffee-coloured fingers and shattered on the hardwood floor.
Despite this, he was sentenced for causing death by careless driving, a piffling little charge when you consider how many lives he has shattered.
I was absolutely shattered after pogoing and singing along and being repeatedly crushed - and they were only third on the bill!
The City Council had a self-imposed one-year deadline for rebuilding the shattered cloverleaf.
Three of the Golem were down, their ceramal bones fused or shattered. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Prador Moon - Neal Asher
This is the second year in a row that the quiet period between Christmas Day and New Year's Day has been shattered by a disaster.
When Walter Scott failed, and Abbotsford was encumbered with a large debt, when his dream of restoring a kind of baronial life was all shattered, he did a grander work than in the building of that magnificent estate; for he strove with all the powers of his mind to earn the money which should repay his creditors. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out
Thus out of the shattered remains of his previous life, Westlake is reborn, an anti-hero for the ages.
Locals say the series of explosions and alerts over the last decade have shattered their confidence in their company's ability to manage the plant without it presenting a hazard to their lives.
And in Latin America Pentecostalism has shattered the Roman Catholic Church's monopoly.
It is a well-known fact, that there exist between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars, what are called planetoids, about 500 in number, which are supposed to be the remnants of a broken or shattered world. Aether and Gravitation
The shock of the blast shattered many windows.
The shattered remnants of other vessels dotted the walls and floor of the tunnel, but she figured the gunrunners had scavenged the majority of the wreckage.
A two-inch nut shattered the window and showered glass into the vehicle as it pulled up outside the school, narrowly missing pupils.
All that was left on the street was the shattered remains of a small trophy cup, broken silver shards twinkling in the evening light.
The confident student, she said, the "multitasker" who had excelled as a student and community volunteer through high school and college, was shattered by four months in a Pakistani jail. Local News from The Lakeland Ledger
Somewhere in between, Pankaj had one opportunity but by then his natural fluency and rhythm had been shattered and his contribution terminated at 15.
They stood watching dumbly in horrible fascination after it shattered.
On the other side of the mountains there were, no doubt, journalists in Indian villages too, also trying to calm small shattered children.

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