Sentence examples for had been shattering from inspiring English sources

The whole night had been marked by a good deal more frantic effort and desperation than Jones had figured on when he sold his modest bank and left his Albany countinghouse for the city downriver that had been shattering bright hopes for nearly two centuries.

But the information loop had been shattered.

His ankle and hip had been shattered.

My early blithe confidence had been shattered.

Her self-confidence had been shattered.

By war's end that society had been shattered.

Infrastructure like roads and bridges had been shattered.

Others found that their ability to trust had been shattered.

When she returned minutes later, the front window on the passenger side had been shattered.

They had been shattered by beatings and grown back in a misshapen form.

The Archbishop of Canterbury said many of the bishops had been "shattered" by the findings.