Sentence examples for shatters from inspiring English sources

Molten glass shatters unless it is cooled gradually overnight in the "annealing oven".

To the glee of giggly readers, it shatters the aquarium, "leaving the flagstones slick with water, Perspex and surprised lobsters" and leaving customers "submerged in éclairs, cheesecake and pavlova".

We all are caught in our own paradigm, and the scariest thing is to encounter someone who shatters it – who forces you to reexamine your own life".

But New Generation's rise suggests that the government's approach, which gives priority to eliminating "high-value targets", is only working in some parts of the country.Critics contend that the strategy of going after kingpins shatters their organisations into smaller groups that can be equally destructive.

The class-based allegiances that once bound voters to their two big rivals weaken; the Lib Dem issues of liberty and localism become the new axes of politics; and, after another election or two, Mr Clegg shatters the Westminster duopoly.That may be a little optimistic.

This machine shatters minuscule amounts of a sample into its component atoms, ionises those atoms in order to give them an electric charge, and then uses that charge to attract the atoms along a tube.

Only a few somewhat tepid measures were taken to deal with the legacy of the past.The new law shatters the pact of forgetting.

Uniformed employees file by impassive security guards; shoes, garments and widgets leave by the truckload for nearby ports.Yet the calm occasionally shatters.

They may, for example, believe in family values, but they accept that divorce shatters the marriage oath repeatedly.This tolerance explains the great national distaste for Mr Starr, and for the journalists who have pursued the president.

No switch-off, please Getting together AIDS and business ReprintsFirst, while traditional telephony takes account of geography, distance, and time, says Michael Powell, America's telecoms regulator, "VOIP shatters all three".

The high-pressure water shatters the matrix, releasing the bound payload.Fracking is the technique behind the new "enhanced geothermal systems" that extract energy from rocks which are hot enough, but too dry, to produce steam.