Sentence examples for shattered stone from inspiring English sources

The fighting left parts of the area once held by Al Qaeda a shambles of shattered stone bunkers, gaping shell holes and scraps of military equipment.

To commemorate Roosevelt's third term (in which he helped win World War II), his statement "I hate war" is given pride of place and is inscribed on a pile of shattered stone.

The Victorian excursionists photographed by Francis Frith at the Ramesseum in 1858 compose themselves in shallow space, as if inhabiting their own frieze before a theatrical backdrop of abraded and shattered stone torsos, knowing that the camera has already trumped the colossi.

In December 2008, Jewish workers funded by anonymous donors painted the blackened walls and re-built the shattered stone marker covering the grave.

Here, among the debris of broken pottery and shattered stone vessels from the burial chamber and lower passages were the remnants of two vases made for Queen Ahmose Nefertari which formed part of the original funerary equipment of Thutmose I; one of the vases contained a secondary inscription which states that Thutmose II "[made it] as his monument to his father".

Placing a frozen pizza on a pizza stone is almost as likely to result in a shattered stone as placing a cold stone in a hot oven.

One of the dead young men, on a southern Eritrean slope of shattered stones and soldiers' bodies, left behind the start of a journal.

Around each turn of a snaking path I cannot help but gasp at the immensity, an expanse of rock and melting ice, chasms and rushing waters, pines and shattered stones.

"At the end of the fast the whole neighborhood came out," Tawfiq Taisir, 27, said outside his home, the yard filled with glass from the upper-floor windows that had been shattered by stones.

When the stone is very large and valuable, the cleaving is a most critical process, because a mistake by the planner or the cleaver can shatter the stone.

My great fear post-election is that we don't analyze the problem well enough, we don't select the proper tools, we don't properly sharpen the implements, and the strike is just enough off the mark as to shatter the stone beyond salvage.