Sentence examples for shattered buildings from inspiring English sources

Grozny is more than a landscape of shattered buildings.

There isn't much of anything, really: just asphalt, ash, shattered buildings and the inevitable, indestructible shopping trolley.

As recently as early 2006, Grozny was less a city than rows of shattered buildings overlooking cesspools.

There are "flashers and floaters in his eyes," as if the debris from the shattered buildings were floating down forever.

Many villages in the region are little more than temporary shelters dotted with shattered buildings and burnt-out churches.

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.

Frank Blasio would have settled for a few minutes back inside his shattered building so that he could retrieve his insulin.

Young boys came with girls in head scarves, as if on dates, and posed for pictures against the shattered building, astonished to be standing where Qaddafi had stood.

As the women, ghost-like in the toxic miasma, pack the shells with TNT, a line of anonymous servicemen proceeds down a ramp through the shattered building.

Tears on her cheeks, she began to shout: at a soldier sweating beneath a hard hat, at the shattered building, at her god, and finally at her children, calling out their names, beckoning to them, "Today, I'm here!

At Gaddafi's compound, supporters who gather nightly to act as human shields against the air strikes climbed on the shattered building shortly after the blasts, as chunks of masonry fell.