Sentence examples for shattered silence from inspiring English sources

For hours afterward, a stream of ambulances, fire engines and police cruisers shattered silence on the Roman Catholic college campus, which was days into its second semester.

You can forgive a woman for shattering silence with shrieks when she tells you that "The ward for the criminally insane was as sad as plastic Jesus souvenirs".

Any comedian can tell you -- not to mention any nine-year-old who has ever farted in church -- that comedy works best when it shatters silence.

A yell shattered the silence.

His booming voice shattered the silence.

Finally, a young woman shattered the silence.

Four centuries ago, another roar shattered the silence of the summer night.

An outcry over a string of recent rapes has shattered that silence.

The shootings shattered the silence of this picturesque Hudson River hamlet, once known as North Tarrytown.

They shattered the silence of every room in the house, and I would press my hands against my ears.

AT about 8 30 at night, an artillery-like barrage of fireworks shattered the silence, followed by the oompah of a tuba and the beating of drums.