Sentence examples for A shatter from inspiring English sources

It is dropped — with a thud and a shatter — and hovers for the rest of the evening like a neon-lighted reproach.

Recently I was deadheading on a Sunday, working on a story, and all of a sudden I heard a crash and a shatter, and the next thing I know there are feathers flying all over the place.

"The high point of his achievement," Bosley Crowther wrote of Minnelli in The New York Times, "is a ballroom scene which spins in a whirl of rapture and crashes in a shatter of shame.

The papers said that in June 2002 a reporter for The Los Angeles Times, Anita Busch, found her car vandalized, a shatter mark that appeared to be a bullet hole in her windshield, a note saying "STOP" and a tin-foil tray holding a dead fish and a rose.

I heard a clatter but not a shatter.

Explosive charges were placed on the glass to achieve a shatter effect.

It's made of a shatter-proof polycarbonate and snaps onto your notebook in two separate pieces for easy opening.

They described a city transformed, a city in which antiaircraft missiles might protect the Statue of Liberty, where Times Square would be converted into a pedestrian mall to thwart truck bombs, where the stained glass in St. Patrick's Cathedral would be coated with a shatter-resistant film, where bomb-sniffing dogs would become an accepted, everyday part of the marble landscape in Grand Central.

A shattering novel.

We had to rebuild a shattered continent.

"It's a shattered dream".