Sentence examples for have it shattered from inspiring English sources

As their families become less Japanese and more American, the women gradually establish a new equilibrium, only to have it shattered in a passage, simply called "Traitors," that returns to the forced removals of World War II.

"I guess we've had it shattered too many times".

A glass tree ornament is fragile, and the last thing I need this year is to order an extremely delicate, one-of-a-kind object and have it arrive shattered into a zillion pieces.

I must confess to you this morning that since that sweltering August afternoon in 1963, my dream has often turned into a nightmare; I've seen it shattered... I've seen my dream shattered because I've been through Appalachia, and I've seen my white brothers along with Negroes living in poverty.

Not that the other workers have it easy: "Every Twelve Seconds" shatters any belief you might have about the system treating animals with a shred of decency.

Older people would come to you asking, 'Would you have anything to eat?' It shattered my heart".

For many Americans, it has shattered its promoters' promises of safety, efficiency and speed.

And as if to drive home the point that the Russian capital has long since moved on from the deprivation and hardship its name still evokes, it has shattered other shopping center records recently.

If you have had it, it can unnerve and shatter you.

As a young adult, though, Ms. Roby became aware of a local minister who had impregnated a teenager, and it shattered her instinctive trust in the clergy.

Mr. Guerino and four women who had participated in the pool watched the tape in silence yesterday, well aware that it had shattered their dreams of fortune.