Sentence examples for shatter off from inspiring English sources

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A dozen pendulums, massive versions of the Newton's cradle toy that sat on so many executive desks in the 80s, swing in choreographed motion, and glittering green laser beams shatter off them.

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It caught the front of the trike, shattering, but off to the side, away from Conner's head.

But the show of unity was immediately shattered by off-the-record briefings against Japan, which needs a weaker yen to help fuel its export-driven economy.

The seeds ripen at different times, and as they ripen, they "shatter" and fall off the plant rather than remaining attached.

Saima was shattered and ran off sobbing.

He was standing there when the bomb went off, shattering his plate glass window, he said, but he emerged unscathed.

But any real attachment foretold disaster — in the worst case, a tussle over a gun that went off, shattering the middle finger of Munch's left hand.

In the late afternoon, young men drove into the square and spun their cars around in tight circles, their screeching tires echoing off shattered buildings.

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.

The ship, loaded with two million barrels of oil, was heading toward Japan on July 28 when a sudden force shattered windows, ripped off deck railings and blew off a lifeboat, in addition to punching the dent into its black-and-red hull.

Two days after the massacre at a school in Newtown, Conn., a shattered community headed off to church Sunday in the misty rain, only to have one service interrupted by death threats that forced the evacuation of the church during noon Mass.

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