Shattering

We heard glass shattering in our street.

Condillac, with sensationalism, revolutionised the concept of mind, making language and gesture prior to ideas, shattering Locke's conception of language as a mere passive medium.

The cup fell to the ground, shattering to pieces.

Sami heard a beer bottle shattering.

I heard the sound of glass shattering.

Ziri heard the sound of glass shattering.

Donald knocked the vases off, shattering them to pieces.

It seems reasonable to conjecture that there is some property that is responsible for all the shatterings, because the operations that have produced the shatterings have all been similar (droppings of glass) […]