The word "shattered" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe something that has been broken into pieces, either physical or figurative. Example sentence: The news of his death shattered the family.
We were shattered – until the German officers started clapping in the front rows.
One aviation expert said the comments backed up the idea that the aircraft's crucial gearbox transmission had "shattered" in mid-air.
Johnston, who saw the crash site from outside the police cordon soon after first light on Saturday, explained: "I have heard one of the main suspicions was that the main transmission gearbox might have shattered.
Such questions were shattered by the outbreak of war in 1939.
The H-block dirty protests and later the hunger strikes finally shattered that manufactured caricature, and even the British state came to accept that the overwhelming majority of republicans were ideologically motivated and dedicated to their cause.
The reader knows that sooner or later a character like Sir Galahad is going to have his illusions shattered.
Haggis says he's fighting daily against the preconception that in the five years since the earthquake shattered Port-au-Prince – killing 220,000, wreaking $14bn in damage, and leaving 1.5 million homeless – Haiti should have been fixed by now.
Related: Lynton Crosby: the man who really won the election for the Tories The British prime minister, David Cameron, spent Friday evening reshaping his government after winning a sensational second five-year mandate for his Conservative party in a general election result that confounded pollsters and pundits – and shattered the centrist Liberal Democrats, his junior coalition partners since 2010.
But what was most significant about Paxman's questioning was the suggestion that it's only a problem if you drink on your own, late at night, presumably in a darkened room, sobbing over a photo in a shattered picture frame while Phil Collins plays on the turntable.
Situations can be personally challenging, comfort zones shattered and limits pushed, but there's always inspiration and support.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 5.26pm BST17:26 Homs explosions Video from the central city of Homs purports to show the moment when the ceasefire was shattered by explosions in the city.
