Sentence examples for shatter against from inspiring English sources

Describing Beard's pleasure at eating a crisp, he wrote: "The trick was to set the fragment at the centre of the tongue and, after a moment's spreading sensation, push the potato up hard to shatter against the roof of the mouth".

Shards of mirror-smooth water shatter against a lake bed.

Now consider that individual over time as there are fewer and fewer old orders to overthrow, fewer and fewer gods to shatter against temple walls.

Alone one night in the dining room, Gold Hill's head waiter Victor Kangas saw a drinking-glass fly through the air to shatter against a wall.

Their relationship shatters against the unyielding tyranny of Nazism, which attracts him and repels her.

His bat shattered against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays on a groundout and cork was found in it.

The ambitious regional idealism of the Obama team's early days soon shattered against rock-hard realities.

Mr. Daley's attempt to orchestrate a centrist "grand bargain" with Congressional Republicans on deficit reduction shattered against conservative opposition to tax increases.

The mono-browed huntsman/werewolf aims a karate chop at Angela Lansbury and her head sails off, shattering against the wall like a porcelain doll.

These trenches arose within the first few months of the war's outbreak, after the great offensives launched by Germany and France had shattered against the deadly, withering fire of the machine gun and the rapid-firing artillery piece.

The most damaging new allegation is from Jeanette Hartgraves, the athletic department secretary, who said Knight threw a vase in her office 12 years ago -- it shattered against a wall -- in an angry fit about not being able to see Ralph Floyd, who was then the school's athletic director.