Sentence examples for shatter something from inspiring English sources

Watching his queer daughter grow up is like hearing an alarm go off in his funereal house: the vibration will shatter something, in addition to his nerves, but what?

If we see a window shatter, something or someone must have broken it; if a ball flies up into the air, something launched it.

But it shattered something else too.

But it also shattered something more precious: our admiration for Atticus Finch.

She also told me to put away four of everything, still in their original boxes, and that way I wouldn't have a heart attack when somebody accidentally shattered something at a dinner party.

Now he has a big book out, his autobiography, amusingly called Total Recall, which comes in the aftermath of arguably his biggest crisis, an illicit affair with his housekeeper which resulted in a son and may have shattered something he has long reveled in, his marriage to the estimable Maria Shriver.

He's shattered irreparably something she considers an essential component of their relationship: absolute commitment.

A few weeks ago, I was expecting to enjoy the summer in the communal garden of my new home, but after weeks of the legal process grinding on, my dreams were shattered by something lurking out there: Japanese knotweed.

While musicians play traditional numbers (according to Mr. Kunstler) like "Rufty Tufty" and "Dick's Maggot," the picture-perfect Darling marriage shatters into something other than a holiday treat.

Anke Schumann, 48, was stargazing and smoking a cigarette on the porch of the Brachenreute home for disabled children just before midnight last Monday when the silence was shattered by something falling from the sky and smashing through the roof of the stables next door.

But don't confuse this with forced positive attitudes, or what author Barbara Ehrenreich terms "magical thinking"; that kind of thinking that causes you to see the "glass half full" when it's completely shattered., something that can take others by surprise and reroute their pessimism.