How to Use shatter in a Sentence
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Over and over, the glass was shattered and the posters stolen.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024
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During the First World War, the house was shattered by shelling.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2024
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At age 10, he was struck in the back of the head with a stray bullet that shattered his skull.
—Liz Szabo, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2023
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Vagrants shattered store windows to get a bed for the night in jail.
—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
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West screamed as a bullet smashed out a window next to him that shattered.
—Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2023
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Kole Calhoun’s two-run double with two out shattered a 6-6 tie in the 11th.
—Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2023
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The glass of one of the building’s upper-floor windows appears to be shattered.
—Sara Smart, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
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The front and back windshields of their truck collapsed, and the driver's side windows shattered.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2023
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The arrests shattered the world of Li and other activists.
—Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
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The Junior Sale of Champions auction has shattered records each of the last two years.
—Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Feb. 2024
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Advertisement The glass on the main doors began to crack and shattered.
—Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
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The night before school, the home is vandalized and a front window is shattered.
—Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
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With viewership up this year, this game may just shatter that record, too.
—TIME, 29 Jan. 2024
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The agency has received dozens of reports of the ovens overheating, causing the handles to melt or break, and glass in the unit to shatter.
—Matt Novak / Gizmodo, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
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But the liberal myth Gray most wants to shatter is that people in the West live in free societies.
—Helena Rosenblatt, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
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One good drop or slip onto a hard surface and your brand new glass bottle could shatter.
—Steven Rowe, Verywell Health, 24 Feb. 2023
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And this has always been somewhat of a mission for West, to push boundaries and shatter glass ceilings.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 19 Dec. 2023
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As parents we are completely shattered at the loss of our baby boy.
—Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 18 Feb. 2024
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In the essay that lends its title to the book, Ramsey recounts efforts to shatter that silence.
—Joan Gaylord, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Jan. 2023
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In one scene they are packed behind glass panels which shatter when the webs hit them sending the cute critters pouring in.
—Caroline Reid, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
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The room above the cellar had been razed, and the second door had been shattered; the Russians below had hung up sheets to prevent the Ukrainian drones from seeing down the stairs.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
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In the cutthroat world of reality TV, alliances will be forged, trust will be shattered, and villains will scheme their way to the top.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 13 Sep. 2023
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The car’s front passenger window was shattered and the steering column had been stripped.
—Robert Higgs, cleveland, 18 July 2023
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But no one told us about the ear-shattering noise, the terrible sounds of battle -- and the complete, utter confusion on the beach.
—The Oregonian, oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2023
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Doors fell, some of the windows shattered, the ceilings also fell, aside from the water and the electricity and food shortages.
—Anna Gordon, TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
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Phoenix continues to shatter record after record as the heat wave refuses to let up.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
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The severity of the punishment shattered the girl’s sense of self and her trust in school authorities, the girl and her mother said.
—Talia Richman, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
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Buildings across the street from the blast site were also impacted, with glass shattered and shop signs damaged, footage aired on CCTV showed.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
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The sale shatters the previous world record for the most expensive dress worn by Princess Diana to be auctioned.
—Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
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The incident started about 10:50 a.m. when a man walked into a jewelry store at Grossmont Shopping Center, pulled a hammer from his waistband and shattered the glass front of the display case.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024
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Cooked in small batches, the falafel shatter in the mouth.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
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On the fourth time around, the GPS falls off, shatters, and gets hit by a car.
—Lauren Cook, The Cut, 15 May 2018
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The glass portion of the door struck a large planter, causing the glass to shatter.
—cleveland, 15 Aug. 2020
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When Windows breaks, the whole world hears the shatter.
—Brian Barrett, WIRED, 10 June 2018
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Don't pull in a jerky way, though—that will make the egg shell shatter.
—Sarah Rense, Esquire, 26 Apr. 2017
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The deputy approaches the door, lifts his weapon and the glass shatters.
—Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 30 July 2019
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The woman heard the glass shatter and the car horn go off and ran back inside her house.
—Sarah Horner, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2019
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At any point, the entire vessel could break off the pipe and shatter.
—Liz Logan, Smithsonian, 13 July 2019
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These are clog-free pumps that are easy to refill and are shatter-proof.
—Chris Hachey, BGR, 28 Apr. 2021
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Live outside the box and shatter every rule not made for you.
—Glamour, 8 Nov. 2021
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The front and back glass survived some drops from head height, but the smaller iPhone 13 Pro’s screen did shatter.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 27 Sep. 2021
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Fish and chips: A shatter-crisp coating of battered fish with fries ($11).
—Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 20 Mar. 2017
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The footage shows a goat walking up to a glass door, butting its head against the pane, and then running away after the glass shatters.
—Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 21 July 2017
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Thompson, who was awake, heard the glass door shatter, ran to grab her son and was shot once in the buttocks and twice in one of her arms.
—oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2019
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The containers are durable, shatter-proof, and air-tight to keep products fresh.
—Lauren Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2023
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The wealthy are paying a fairer share of taxes even as the stock market shatters records.
—Michael Sebastian, Town & Country, 11 Jan. 2017
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The wealthy are paying a fairer share of taxes even as the stock market shatters records.
—Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Jan. 2017
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Glass can break or shatter, so plastic is safer in that aspect.
—Barbara Bellesi Zito, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2022
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After a brief dance break and a sequence in which the star turns to glass and shatters before our eyes, the two finally kiss.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2018
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Remove the pan and hit the wax with something blunt (such as the handle of a dinner knife) to make the wax shatter, then vacuum up the pieces.
—Heloise, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2019
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The wave reaches its greatest possible height and shatters in a spray of white.
—Han Kang, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
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The glass travel vial is durable and shatter-resistant.
—Sian Babish, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2020
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Without the bread slices smothering the shatter and snap of bacon and lettuce, there’s a lot more crunch.
—Melissa Clark, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2018
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The display will be more shatter-resistant than the Series 8.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 11 July 2022
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Tajikistan is the poorest of the 15 former Soviet republics, all of which emerged out of the shatter zone of empires.
—Anna Sherman Maxime Fossat, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
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His six Fuel comrades went crashing to the stage floor when Lee hit them with an in-person earth shatter.
—Sean Collins, Dallas News, 9 July 2021
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Dang’s take on Vietnamese street food shatters gloriously with your first bite of the scorched rice crust.
—Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
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The woman ran to the front door and saw the suspect shatter the window with the crowbar, then strike and kick the door repeatedly, cracking it.
—Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 May 2021
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The heating surface is made of heavy-duty ceramic, covered by shatter-proof, easy-to-clean glass.
—Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2023
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Forty shells at a time are packed into trays that are fed into a long oven for a four-hour heat-treating process that helps the steel shatter into small, deadly pieces when the shell explodes.
—Rebecca Lieberman, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
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