Sentence examples for shattered around from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

As she walked through the rubble and broken streets, houses split and shattered around her, an eerie silence fell.

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.

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

The imagery of stuff breaking and falling apart; its almost like the whole world shattering around you, but you're trying to keep it alive".

And I wonder if they'll ever be able to pick up the pieces of their lives and return to some semblance of normalcy in societies that are often shattering around them.

The perfect details of someone's handiwork shattering around my Dansko clogs, the whole world in that instant painfully and resentfully aware of the negligent mistake I have made.