Sentence examples for building shattered from inspiring English sources

Here and there were the remains of a concrete building, shattered into pieces the size of dinner plates and strewn inland.

Front door of our building shattered and things fell off our shelves … but David and I are fine and so is our dinner guest.

All the windows in the building shattered, and students were frightened.

No one was physically injured in the shooting, although bullets hit the building, shattering glass.

The first blast ripped off the facade of the 18-storey HSBC building, shattering the windows of nearby skyscrapers.

The blast on Tuesday in downtown Sana tore through a thoroughfare between the cabinet office and the state radio building, shattering buildings and wrecking a vehicle carrying the seven bodyguards, seconds after the minister himself, Maj.

Hours earlier, a man had rammed his car into the building, shattering the front doors and plowing into a marble fountain inside.

At the Saudi Embassy, which is near the president's office in the Abu Rumanneh neighborhood, witnesses and residents said that hundreds of men shouting slogans in support of Mr. Assad beat a guard and broke into the building, shattering windows and causing other damage inside the compound.

Sofoni Herz, a teacher at a Jewish orphanage in Dinslaken, a mining town in the Ruhr, hurriedly took 32 children outside while a gang of 50 men systematically destroyed everything in the building, "shattering window panes, throwing books, chairs, beds, tables, linens, maps, valises, piano parts, etc out of the windows and doors" before setting the orphanage's synagogue on fire.

Crane and ball A heavy ball is swung into the building shattering its structure.

Fierce winds battered the seafront building, shattering the roof and sending rain and debris pouring down on the frightened people below, she said.