Sentence examples for shatter around from inspiring English sources

As industries contract and shatter around us, we sit in our thrumming little tour buses and smile bitterly.

Millions have watched their worlds shatter around them because of this disease, losing parents, teachers, a sense of security and hope for the future.

They have hidden under piles of bodies pretending to be dead while their world shattered around them.

With his coalition and governing majority shattering around him, President Obama will have to summon political skills — starting Wednesday — that he has not yet shown he has.

Each new occupant is affected by the glass room's quiet power; as lives are shattered around it, it remains a place of dreams.

Mr Kato collapsed into a chair, a broken man, his dreams of reform shattered around him.Public drama like this is rare indeed in Japan's carefully scripted politics.

The next day, he finds himself cornered in an alley, the target of batting practice with broken bottles shattering around him.

A man and his young son walking past the tower on their way to the library in 1997 came close to being crushed by a panel of the limestonelike façade, which fell 20 stories and shattered around them.

While my glass monolith shattered around me, I began to ponder the "what-ifs" of the project, including what might have happened if I had gone through with putting my education on hold.

If, as a VR experience designer, I seat you in front of a table where a glass vase is positioned precariously close to the edge, I'm tapping narrative potential by making you imagine it falling and shattering around you.

Don't preach to the damn choir Donald when your own glass house is shattering around you.