Sentence examples for minutes shattering from inspiring English sources

Instead, he fired at the building for six agonizing minutes, shattering windows and shooting through wooden walls, authorities said.

At Coney Island, Takeru Kobayashi, 25, a rail-thin 132-pounder from Nagano, Japan, won the coveted Mustard Yellow Belt at Nathan's Famous hot-dog-eating contest for the fourth consecutive year, by wolfing down 53 1/2 wieners in 12 minutes, shattering his own record by 3 hot dogs.

Last year, the guide reached the 29,035-foot summit from the 17,160-foot base camp in just 16 hours, 56 minutes, shattering the record set by a fellow Sherpa, Kaji, who climbed Everest in 1998 in 20 hours, 24 minutes.

It took just 20 minutes to shatter that image.

The blasts, about two minutes apart, shattered the calm of a Muslim Sabbath morning and nearly 11 months without significant violence in Aleppo, Syria's commercial capital.

During the session, a woman from human resources cautioned us with an aphorism: It takes 20 years to build a positive reputation -- and five minutes to shatter it.

*Paula Radcliffe of England won the Chicago Marathon last October in 2 hours 17 minutes 18 seconds, shattering the women's world record by more than a minute and moving the women's standard as close as it has ever been to the men's for a race of 26.2 miles.

So much coiled-up tension is built that its release in the final minutes is a shattering liberation.

The United States was timed in 3 minutes 8.24 seconds, shattering by nearly four seconds the world record that its B team had set the previous night.

Even with some confusion near the finish line, Tergat ran 26.2 miles in 2 hours 4 minutes 55 seconds, shattering by 43 seconds the previous record held by the Moroccan-born American Khalid Khannouchi, who lives in Ossining, N.Y.

D1 Kenyan Sets Marathon Record Paul Tergat ran a marathon in Berlin in 2 hours 4 minutes 55 seconds, shattering by 43 seconds the previous record held by the Moroccan-born American Khalid Khannouchi.