Sentence examples for shattering on from inspiring English sources

"What?" my daughter said, her glass of iced tea slipping out of her hands and shattering on the tile floor.

A shattering on the side of my head, then the steady white rain on the kitchen tiles.

As soon as you hear the shards shattering on the kitchen floor, the rule is that you say: "I hated that glass!

She tells stories that were glanced over in Infidel – of her father, mother, sisters, brother and cousins – describing a clan system shattering on the shores of modernity.

(The evening's soundtrack, before the concert began, was the symphony of wineglasses shattering on the marble floor, as patrons seemed to have a hard time keeping their drinks in their hands).

There's nothing quite as satisfying as watching that pile of clean dishes to the left of the sink pile up and up and up until it topples over, shattering on the floor.

During that time, she endured surgery to repair her lower jaw, which was shattered on one side and broken in four places on the other.

"I got bottled in the face one time I was out there…someone yelled out something and this bottle just shattered on my cheek bone," said one participant.

When I clumsily drop one of the strings, it shatters on the floor, but we quickly use the neighbouring strands as templates for reassembling the broken one.

After Lindy is raped one night and no arrest is made, innocence and illusions are shattered on Piney Creek Road in Baton Rouge's affluent suburb.

It lay shattered on its side.