Shatter

//ˈʃæt.ə(ɹ)//

"Shatter" in a Sentence (34 examples)

I call on the living, lament the dead, shatter the lightning.

Freedom Oh yes freedom from everything. From the memories that possess us. From the guts that know what they know. Because of these wounds that chain us to the pit, and the shouts of wings that shatter us.

A woman did not magically appear on a space shuttle. It took Sally Ride’s relentless commitment, Mae Jemison’s boundless courage to shatter that glass ceiling.

I feel so dizzy to lose all of this, so giddy to shatter all of this!

That might shatter the windshield.

A rock this size might shatter the windshield.

I stopped by the weed store and got us some more shatter.

Rodrigo heard glass shatter at the front entrance.

He wanted to shatter the statue, but his friend grabbed his arm.

He is unable to shatter his knees.

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The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks.

a high-pitched voice that could shatter glass

The old oak tree has been shattered by lightning.

to be shattered in intellect

to have shattered hopes

to have a shattered constitution

a man of a loose, volatile, and shatter'd humour

Your death will shatter him. Which is what I want. Actually, I would prefer to kill him.

A CAT scan revealed she had an inoperable brain tumor. The news shattered Michele's mother.

I don't mean to shatter your ego, but this ain't the first time I've had gun pointed at me.

The marriage, of course, was long broken but Munoz knew that asking her for a divorce would shatter her.

Harvesting is done much as with alfalfa, but alsike seed is small and shatters if it is not handled carefully.

Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

Bulletlike rain shattered down. Instantly, Willy was soaked to the skin. Then her right foot skidded out before her, and she felt her balance begin to go. Inevitably and with shocking swiftness came the moment when her body obeyed gravity[…]

The heavens opened up, and the rain shattered down. She trailed a finger down the window, following drops of water as they splashed and wept down the pane.

He learned forward […] and the sleeting rain shattered down like diamonds from the brim of his hat.

... rain shattered down on the pub windows,[…]

to break a glass into shatters

it will fall upon the glass of the sconce, and break it into shatters

My usual habit is, as soon as I get my wheat trodden out, and my corn secured in the fall, to litter my farm yard (and if my cultivation is far off, I select some warm spot near the field) with leaves and pine shatters, (preferring the former) ...

They are preserved in cellars, or out of doors in kilns. The method of fixing them is to raise the ground a few inches, where they are to be placed, and cover with pine shatters to the depth of six inches or more.

Grandpa snapped his fingers. "Consarn it all!" he sputtered. "I plumb forgot the pine shatters. Paul and Maureen, you gather some nice smelly pine shatters from off 'n the floor of the woods. Nothin' makes a better cushion for pony feet as pine shatters ..."

There's a tidy shatter of sin already in the Fee, says Parson. Ah, says I, but us can't all be saints like yourself, Parson.

[He] steps out into the rain. It takes his eyes a moment to adjust, to get used to the misty glow of the moon above them, to take in the wild look of their yard, and the shatter of rain. The insects have escaped it at least, hidden beneath the cover of grass and foliage, beneath the low-hanging branches of the jacarandas and poincianas. Birds huddle there as well,[…]

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