How To Use Shattering In A Sentence

The shattering implications of Bellesiles' argument for scholars, policy-makers, and ruminators upon the national character are clearly evident, but he leaves them unstated.
He quotes from the diary: ‘a doodlebug comes over our bus and we all crouch down to avoid the shattering of the window-glass.’
A tautly told tale of psychological tension and chilling moral complexity, The Last Secret accelerates to a shattering conclusion as it explores the irreparable consequences of one family's crimes of the heart. The Last Secret: Summary and book reviews of The Last Secret by Mary McGarry Morris.
I received some shattering news: My story was rejected.
It was an earth-shattering reminder that games change and sometimes you can't stay in love forever.

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For the record -- and it's important to go on the record on such earth-shattering matters -- I think she looks great. Kate Winslet's new hair look
It's absurd things like that that balance the movie off its pain-film miserableness; this is a really funny movie, despite the constant stream of tragedy, loss, degradation and soul-shattering identity crisis its characters undergo.
The yet untanned autumn faces of the foreigners grew paler as they heard glass shattering.
In a sense, however, the existence of such a paradox is not exactly earth-shattering. Archive 2009-03-01
The bullet had entered through the left temple, burning and splitting the skin and singeing Grace's hair above the wound, and shattering the sphenoid bone. The Killing Kind
The blast caused extensive damage, shattering the ground-floor windows.
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.
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.
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.
But the shattering detonations on Friday sounded like heavy mortar fire, and they shook our house to its foundations.
The furnishing is spartan but includes an immense grandfather clock which strikes the hour with a shattering noise.
Admittedly their margins of victory in this Munster campaign have not been earth-shattering.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. George Orwell
The bullet lodged in the sergeant's leg, shattering his thigh bone.
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.
Today the guiding hand of evolution is unmistakably human, with earth-shattering consequences.
What I remember about growing up in my neighborhood was the sound of big ass rocket motors being tested and the occassional foundation shaking, glass shattering of a rocket engine blowing up in its hardstand about one half mile away. Scripting News for 5/8/2007 « Scripting News Annex
His voice was drowned by the shattering roar of a jet plane passing over the chimney pot.
And there was afterwards writ a proper and careful treatise, and did set out that there did be ruptures of the Æther, the which did constitute doorways, as those more fanciful ones did name them; and through these shatterings, which might be likened unto openings -- there being no better word to their naming -- there did come into this Particular Condition Of Life, those Monstrous Forces Of Evil, that did dominate the Night, and which many did hold surely to have been given this improper entrance through the foolish and unwise wisdom of those olden men of learning, that did meddle overfar with matters that did reach in the end beyond their understanding. The Night Land: Chapter 7
In January, assailants sprayed the building with bullets, shattering doors and windows.
There is another parallel with Angela's Ashes, but one that shows how much better this book is: the deaths of no fewer than three Fuller children, and the unappeasable pain of these losses, are evoked with a shattering lack of melodrama.
Wolf skipped a flat stone across the surface, shattering the mirror.
The first seven issues kept setting up massive, earth-shattering menaces, only to have them just sort of go “pfft.” Justice League of America #14 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
The narrative, focalized through its subject, Thomas Cromwell, dwells at greatest length on Henry VIII's quest for an heir and the earth-shattering social, political, and religious consequences it entailed. The Little Professor:
A live musical performance to accompany a restored print of a film of Captain Scott's tragic polar quest highlights the shattering impact of noiselessness The disquieting sound of The Great White Silence
A fortnight after she had made this earth-shattering discovery she was amazed when he stuttered out an invitation to the cinema.
Richard Gough will make his comeback for Rangers tomorrow only six weeks after shattering his jaw in four places.
It proved a shattering wake-up call.
For there is a truly primitive and savage power in the imagination that could heap such piles of music, revel in the shattering fury of trumpets, upbuild choragic pyramids. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
A deep-toned booming note came then from the hills, commencing like the warning siren of a space liner approaching its berth and swelling to a bombilation of ear-shattering sound that set the steel of the _Nomad's_ hull vibrating and their very flesh and bones a-tingle. Creatures of Vibration
She attempted to tear out of his grasp once again until she felt his hand tighten in a bone shattering clutch over her wrist.
However, the contender did manage some shattering attacks of his own.
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.
Here are the highlights, none of which are earth-shattering: More Â» The Consumerist: February 2009 Archives
I was awake then, but somehow managed to miss this earth-shattering event.
the shattering peal of artillery
She didn't do anything as she didn't want to make a scene in front of the media, shattering her public image.
Lamps dismounted from their tables at the slightest touch; pictures plummeted from the wall, the glass in their frames shattering, whenever anyone walked past them. Poor Devil
This was the most shattering blow of all: Gascony had been English since the twelfth century, and the long-established wine and cloth trades with south-west France were seriously disrupted.
Graceland traces an MOR-shattering pilgrimage wherein Simon spent 17 days recording in South Africa, cheesing off the United Nations and immersing himself in mbaqanga and mbube rhythms. Broward-Palm Beach New Times | Complete Issue
Even now, he heard shattering pieces of glass, frightful arguments, and spine-chilling words being spat across the room from each of his parents.
The nerve shattering noise was from a petrol driven concrete and bitumen cutting saw so loud that all workers were wearing ear muffs.
But that goes out of the window the minute the first needle pricks the buttocks, shattering the calm of any expectations.
Drilled into his knee was a large hole where the bullet had smashed into his kneecap, shattering two bones.
The plate soared through the air, slicing the twilight, before a bullet made contact with it, shattering the porcelain dish in midair.
Their slightest charities aggrandized, their failings easily forgiven and forgotten, inculpable colossi towering over their lessers, imposing themselves and shattering lives with a casual indifference born of self-affected ambition. Masked
I know this isn't exactly earth-shattering news but the news does bring back quite a flood of happy memories for me.
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.
There's no board flipping, board spinning, or ankle-shattering ollies.
This earth-shattering news was reported straight and at length in the papers, which is a tribute of sorts to Jack Irvine, his PR gopher.
Basalt fragmentation can occur by the explosive eruption process, or by an essentially nonexplosive process associated with the spalling of pillow basalt rinds by thermal shock or chill shattering.
He turns aggressive and a verbal duel follows, shattering any semblance of peace that remains.
He was practically yelling his opinions to his table mates and shattering the air with his laughter.
At that moment, from the other side of a wood, they heard the screech of brakes and an ear-shattering bang.
In the end, he accomplishes his mission, at the cost of shattering his own health and psyche.
When I first coined the term “nuke porn” I was mostly disparaging this genre of nuclear thriller, caricaturing it as “the finger on the trigger, bringing the trembling world to the brink of a shattering climax.” How the End Begins
Glasses and bottles were shattering throughout the room, exploding on the walls and cutting everyone in range.
But his victory comes at a price, a shattering concussive disorientation that renders him unable to appreciate the win. Matt's TV Week in Review
Mica is also another example of laminated cleavage, for given care, and a thin, fine knife to divide the plates, this mineral may be "cleaved" to such remarkably thin sheets as to be unable to sustain the most delicate touch without shattering. The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
Possibly his first little wolfish howl (for it would be monstrous to think that he or even Remus condescended to a _vagitus_ or cry such as a young tailor or rat-catcher might emit) may have symphonized with the ear-shattering trumpet that proclaimed the inauguration of the first The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
The answer is a “no” complimented with beer-aided flatulence and the shattering of florescent light tubes. Weekend Weirdness SXSW Review: Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers | /Film
His mother's death was a shattering blow.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. George Orwell
We are dealing with life-shattering illnesses, such as melancholic depression, mania and catatonia.
This was the most shattering blow of all: Gascony had been English since the twelfth century, and the long-established wine and cloth trades with south-west France were seriously disrupted.
Montmorin knew what was coming, but just then the forward carronade sent a shattering cask of musket balls into the Revenant's belly and belched a pall of smoke above the ship. Sharpe's Trafalgar
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.
I did not and do not seek a Luther-like emotional trauma and a shattering onrush of new experience.
The bell let out an ear-shattering, death-defying ring that sent out ghosts and wights and phantoms and other eerie, unfriendly shadowlings.
He and his wife had suffered a shattering blow when their only daughter died in the crash of a small plane.
Whenever you speak of water, treat it as fire -- of fire, _vice versa_, as water; and be sure to send them all shattering out of reach and discrimination of all sense; and look into a dictionary for some such word as "chrysoprase," which we find to come from χρυσος gold, and πρασον a leek, and means a precious stone; it is capable of being shattered, together with "sunshine" -- the reader will think the whole passage a "flash" of moonshine. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
They need to bounce back from the shattering blow of defeat at the weekend at Hull City.
The soul-shattering scream still wrenched from Elaine's bloodless lips.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. George Orwell
The bang came suddenly, echoing across the buildings, shattering glass.
Because it was built from coquina, a rare form of limestone and soft shells with small air pockets that absorbed shells rather than shattering, it is the oldest fort of its kind that was never breached. Mickey Goodman: Family Fun - 48-Hours in St. Augustine, Florida
the shattering tones of the enormous carillon
Nothing earth-shattering revealed in Eun Yang's Rhee sit-down (NBCWashington. com) DeMorning DeBonis: Sept. 28, 2010
A bunch of moss-munching brontosauruses standing together looking up in the sky, as a giant, earth-shattering meteor comes hurling down from the heavens.
Michelle felt the painful sting as shards of glass showered over her, shattering upon the impact of Anna's body.
An impossibly high, ear-splitting sound emitted from the speakers, shattering almost all the windows in the stadium.
A shattering tinkle echoes as the ice pieces cover the floor.
The shattering and reclaiming of memory proceeds in similar ways for most of the central protagonists of the novel.
The disaster also deals a shattering blow to the railway industry as a whole.
Maybe it takes the tragic death of an icon or other an earth-shattering event to get our attention. John M. Eger: The Art and Design Legacy of the Apple CEO
If you digitalize your paint works there little reason not to paint over them, props should be recycled or reused once the movie is filmed, sculptures can and should also be digitalized, shattering the original one is no longer a problem, etc. No-Trace Living
Today's children are blessed with the opportunity to open their minds to the shattering wonder of their own existence, the nature of life and its remarkable provenance in a yet more remarkable universe.
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.
It may not sound like earth-shattering news, but for those of us who love our cinemas as much as we do our movies, it is.
People were thrown onto the coach ceiling and the shattering windows showered them with broken glass.
Her steed was a kicking and screaming demon, its hooves shattering skulls and ribs as the wolves tried to overwhelm them. Odyssey
A central plank of the neo-conservatives' war plan is shattering.
Shattering progressives' preconception that the evangelical Christian world is monolithic, Christian intellectuals, in this small microcosm, are engaged in a heated colloquy over the relationship of learning to faith.
None of these in isolation are earth-shattering events, but together they provide persuasive evidence of the cultural revolution now taking place in Britain.
The gunmen sprayed the shopfront, shattering glass and pock-marking the walls as holidaymakers screamed and ducked.
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.
Each section of the book is timed from the world shattering moment that Mom drives away, leaving behind her child and leaving behind being a mother. Archive 2006-07-01
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.
It is a depiction of shattering, chronic, inescapable pain and suffering that refuses to slide into self-pity.
The bullet lodged in the sergeant's leg, shattering his thigh bone.
A carful of teenagers, high on something, zoomed by, a sudden blast of raucous laughter shattering the warm peace of the night.
However, one night of mind-blowing, soul-shattering ecstasy means you'll never in your life enjoy this magical creature's gentle nuzzling. (It feels like taking a bubble bath full of giggling puppies!
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. George Orwell
Other qualities, such as husking and cracking, size, and quality of kernel, are reported to be the same as in the north except that Stabler leads in cracking quality, with Thomas a rather poor second, owing, perhaps, to a shell too well filled for cracking without shattering the kernels. Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943
The bang came suddenly, echoing across the buildings, shattering glass.
Shunning pigeonholes doesn't necessarily make for earth-shattering innovation.
Apart from Holsten Pils, which is obviously, mind-shatteringly brilliant, I mean, anagrams, who'd have thought it?
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. George Orwell
Water doesn't compress and the piston in effect hits a wall, bending or breaking a con rod and possibly shattering the engine block.
Upon hearing this earth-shattering news, a wounded Cal immediately succumbs to Emily's request, and with a promise to willingly sign all the divorce papers, he moves in to his post-divorce apartment. Mark Banschick, MD: Sensible, Smart, Love
Can't cut it with any of our tools, even the diamond laser, without completely shattering it beyond use.
Will Ralphie boy have an ego-shattering nervous breakdown like Jim Bakker had in prison, which actually led to Jim Bakker becoming more of a real Christian instead of the “moneychanger” Christian he had been before? Firedoglake » Safavian Found Guilty
The bullet lodged in the sergeant's leg,[Sentence dictionary] shattering his thigh bone.
shattering rain striking the windowpanes
Because, really, how else are men going to learn the earth-shattering news: Most women don't orgasm through intercourse, and oral sex is probably your best bet if you want to make us come!
The question does not have to be of earth-shattering importance, but it really does have to be of deep concern to the querist at the time the question is asked.
A bunch of moss-munching brontosauruses standing together looking up in the sky, as a giant, earth-shattering meteor comes hurling down from the heavens.
The panes are laminated glass, which resist shattering if struck by a falling branch.
What she discovers is shattering: an artifact that will seal her destiny; a brotherhood of monks willing to murder to protect their secret; and a powerful black-market occultist desperate to put his own claim to centuries-old blood money. Rogue Angel: Destiny
I gazed at the mahogany of the desk, the long scar made there by a shattering coffee mug almost three years ago.
The blast caused extensive damage, shattering the ground-floor windows.
The cruiser lurched under the hail of fire - two shots slammed into the wheels and funnels of the strange ship, shattering wood and rending metal until the sleek machine of death became a tangled mess of bloody scrap.
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.
The computer world was abuzz with rumors of two potentially earth-shattering computers.
Sometimes they come in as sidekicks for the hero or the heroine but most of the time they are insignificant characters going through an earth-shattering crisis while appearing in flashbacks.
the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering
An unshowy mastery of empathetic guitar-lines lends depth and variety to the rawness: shattering echoes, sinister decayed sputterings, plaintive refrains.
In the wake of such shattering, Americans became much more susceptible to destructive "resurrective ideologies" that promised to restore the grandiose illusions that had been lost. Robert D. Stolorow: Death and Resurrection
Not quite earth-shattering but rapid-fire gags and stoner charm put the hilarity into annihilation. The Sun
They are backed by a powerful government committed to the servicing of its debt and wielding enormous money-printing and taxing powers that are revocable only in a shattering political upheaval.
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.
All twelve volumes of Powell's famous roman-fleuve about the shattering transformations of first interwar and then post-WWII England, told through the partly autobiographical figure of novelist Nicholas Jenkins. This Week's Acquisitions
This would be an earth-shattering, transformational event that would have a major social and economic impact across the region.
It was a shattering schedule - seven meetings in two days.
In Janoff-Bulman's poignant phrase, ‘it was the shattering of the assumptive world’.
Though shattering a backboard is not the goal of a slam dunk, it is possible with enough force to shatter a glass backboard. Glass Shooter | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
The news of his death came as a shattering blow.
It would not be an earth-shattering shift for the republican movement.
A bullet went crashing through the rear window, shattering the glass behind me.
The earth-shattering declaration (which was an absolute absurdity, really) came from a tall, willowy girl surrounded by what could only be classified as a gaggle of peons.
Papa John: A Music Legend’s Shattering Journey Through Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll was a brick of a book with the title faux spray-painted on the jacket in neon colors. HIGH ON ARRIVAL
I broke them, shattering the pieces, cutting my hand with the glass.
'bus, it is true, plies between, but it is one of those long, close prisons with windows that annihilate thought by their shattering unfixedness. Highways & Byways in Sussex
The tender scene made her more determined to help find this inhuman beast and stop him from shattering any more lives.
They ‘send’ - via Mercury - those inner daemons that are bent on shaking up and shattering limiting preconceptions of who we are and what our role in life is.
She heard the crash of shattering glass as the vehicles collided.
It smashed against the rusted freight car behind her, shattering the glass exterior and buckling the sensitive anode.
The glass tube shattering in a Thermos bottle?
Each couple has an earth-shattering story to tell.
Picric acid or lyddite, used in the Japanese explosive shimose, and tetryl were also highly sensitive, the latter having a higher shattering effect than TNT.
We'll Take Manhattan BBC4 told the story of a baby David Bailey and his muse and mistress Jean Shrimpton – still very much the raw prawn herself – jetting off to New York in 1962 to do the rule-shattering Young Idea Goes West photoshoot for Vogue, all battered teddy bears, gritty streetscapes and the extraordinarily ordinary gangly girl next door, that would establish them for ever as icons of the 60s' cultural revolution. TV review: We'll Take Manhattan; David Bailey: Four Beats to the Bar and No Cheating; Putin, Russia and the West
But a distant acquaintance of mine, who has an African mother and a French father, came out with a shattering truth.
Suddenly machine-gun fire raked the bridge and the pilothouse, shattering the safety windows.
Ramsey was already dangerously distended, as an effect of the earlier part of her discourse, and the word "fastidious" almost exploded him; but upon the climax, "Dora Yocum," he blew up with a shattering report and, leaving fragments of incoherence ricocheting behind him, fled shuddering from the house. Ramsey Milholland
There may come to us some shattering calamity or dreadful disappointment or some moral failure.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. George Orwell
He stopped at the closed door, surprised to hear clattering and shattering from within.
She covered her ears with the piercing sound of shattering glass.
But be warned, this is not a gig featuring his usual brand of ear-shattering rock - it's more rootsy, country-based music.
One of them fell off the rockface, shattering his shinbone. Times, Sunday Times
Don tries to avoid making a phone call destined to bring him earth-shattering bad news by making his protégé, Peggy, stay behind to help him with a troublesome Samsonite ad. Mad Men Episode Recap: "The Suitcase"
Last Saturday's earth-shattering event did not receive, from this paper, the celebration it deserved.
He doesn't notice his peers' fearful presentiments, or the sharp clatter of something falling onto the floor, shattering the silence.
The room echoed with sounds of yelling, crashing, and glasses shattering.
At this stage in their development, the camera focuses on the parents' reaction to the shattering news.
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.
Parliament stood silent and empty on Friday afternoon, stripped of everything but government-issue furniture in preparation for its new occupant - Democratic Party leader Tony Leon. ooden desk, with inlaid fake-leather writing pad, yawned open; an unpk in one corner, and in the dustbin was a discarded folder carrying the NNP logo, a poignant symbol of the party's shattering defeat in the June 2 polls. ANC Daily News Briefing
Obviously, the target of the use of the term golliwog makes some difference to the situation, but whether ot not Carol Thatcher is employed by the BBC is hardly an earth-shattering issue. Harry's Place
None of this is of earth-shattering importance; much of it is of no importance at all.
The finality of death of a young man with glowing prospects for success is a shattering blow indeed.
ARE THE traditional types of crackers that produce ear-shattering noises, slowly losing their popularity?
His mother's death was a shattering blow.
It struck a bookcase, shattering the glass in the door, ricochetted off and demolished a large jardinière which spilled its potted palm onto the floor before its pieces themselves landed there on top of it.
The Voyage of the TriesteOn Jan. 23,1960, U.S. Navy Lt. Don Walsh and Swiss explorer Jacques Piccard made the only voyage to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the bathyscaphe Trieste, shattering by four kilometers the depth record they had set just 15 days before. Into The Challenger
There was an undeniable wholesomeness to the evening: record-shattering ticket sales, endearing uniformed Scout greeters, dietetic menu items asparagus shots, anyone? At Girl Scouts Gala, Lots of Smart Cookies
While this may not seem like earth-shattering news to the world at large, it has certainly altered life on the home front.
It was a shattering blow to her pride.
Before, scientists had assumed that this shattering led to the eventual dissipation of the rings, but a new simulation, created by Glen Stewart and Stuart Robbins of the University of Colorado, shows that after breaking up, the particles could again clump together in a perpetual recycling process. Saturn’s Rings Might Be Ancient | Disinformation
Make no mistake, these are probably not earth-shattering changes that will have huge ramifications for the Minnesota deer herd. Politics and Deer Management
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.
This shattering statistic crashed into Downing Street, where brows were being mopped and arrangements stood down.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. George Orwell
The thought enraged her further and her fist hit the mirror, shattering it and splintering the wooden frame around it.
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.
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.
I heard the shattering but not before I felt the hot liquid soaking my worm pajama pants and burning my skin.
He was cut off by a frightening noise: an unhuman, ear-shattering scream of terror and pain.
In so doing, all nine justices recognized that a dead person retains an interest in a good reputation - shattering the common pretense that this was not true.
Blood thirst blurred his vision as he howled with rage, shattering the invisible shackles that restricted his body.
He was to become a bookseller and publisher as well as the owner and editor of the Political Register, in which he launched shattering onslaughts against the forces of reaction.
Ice cakes left over from the big freeze began surfing down the face of the waves and shattering against the schooner 's bow. AMAGANSETT
We will win victories we cannot now imagine, and live through shattering defeats.
The effects of verbal abuse can be shattering.
Her steed was a kicking and screaming demon, its hooves shattering skulls and ribs as the wolves tried to overwhelm them. Odyssey
He imagined himself telling her, and saw her tiny face falling, shattering on the sidewalk like a small mirror.

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