Sentence examples for Soon shattered from inspiring English sources

[10] The plaque soon shattered.

As Elliot foresaw, his friend's bliss was soon shattered.

Any illusion I had that there was a degree of courtesy and comradeship was soon shattered.

The ambitious regional idealism of the Obama team's early days soon shattered against rock-hard realities.

The brief respite was soon shattered, however, by the anti-sealing campaigns of animal rights activists.

Her illusions are soon shattered by her realisation that there will be three in this marriage.

As he listened to a rising drumbeat in the ice under his feet, indicating colliding plates that would soon shatter, Jim Osse, a marine engineer and diver from the University of Washington who had just hours before spent time beneath that ice, listed some of the marvels: "The vastness of it, the fact that we're standing on an ocean, and that we're not stationary".

It was an illusion that would soon be shattered.

But the idyll would soon be shattered – by the very man who had created it.

Nevertheless, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama sensed that Tibet's isolation would soon be shattered by "barbaric red Communists": Our spiritual and cultural traditions will be completely eradicated.

There were loyal servants, gentle sensibilities and a suspended fiction that would soon be shattered by the reality of the rock 'n' roll years.