Sentence examples for it would shatter from inspiring English sources

My knees continued to tremble and I gripped the handlebar so tightly I was convinced it would shatter in my palm.

"The Marquis's Dominatrix"(2008), a coiled whip of leather, glass and onyx, looks as if it would shatter in the hands of a libertine.

Even that scenario, which many Republicans are hoping for, because it would shatter the unified Democratic front, complicates the Republicans' overall task.

If he wore a mood ring it would shatter; he can vacillate in seconds from whopping anxiety and insecurity to fierce determination, thorny to sunny and back again.

If hit hard with the ideology of hatred, our society would not split into two, it would shatter into a thousand pieces.

But in my panic, with everyone staring at me, most particularly Russell Crowe, who was holding the phone so angrily I thought it would shatter, the word just left my head.

When I asked him why he hadn't said anything before, he said he thought I would shatter.

But as significant as a Cleveland championship would be, as the city's first major sports title since 1964 undoubtedly is at simple first blush, it's hard to believe anyone imagined that the Cavaliers winning it all would shatter the NBA landscape like it has.

I immediately recognized that not only was that better than anything I ever did in practice but that it also would shatter the United States record of 1 minute 55 seconds.

Whoever was taking it - we couldn't see and couldn't care who it was - would shatter our dreams.

(Mr. Achatz conjured a coarsely textured, hand-cranked sorbet, flavored with mint and sea salt, frozen in pans eight inches square and one inch deep. "Then you would shatter it so that it broke into organic pieces, like icebergs," he said).