Sentence examples similar to to shatter something from inspiring English sources

Watching his queer daughter grow up is like hearing an alarm go off in his funereal house: the vibration will shatter something, in addition to his nerves, but what?

Now he has a big book out, his autobiography, amusingly called Total Recall, which comes in the aftermath of arguably his biggest crisis, an illicit affair with his housekeeper which resulted in a son and may have shattered something he has long reveled in, his marriage to the estimable Maria Shriver.

But it shattered something else too.

But it also shattered something more precious: our admiration for Atticus Finch.

She also told me to put away four of everything, still in their original boxes, and that way I wouldn't have a heart attack when somebody accidentally shattered something at a dinner party.

The beer inside a bottle is carbonated, which means it exerts pressure on the glass, making it more likely to shatter when hitting something.

Never mind cops' and media's unwarranted overreaction to shatter; if there was something to be a bit freaked out about this year, it's how fentanyl has impacted the country.

But Dr. Chase, working in his laboratory, stumbled upon something that appeared to shatter that widespread tenet.

If anything worthwhile is going to come of this process, Secretary Kerry is going to have to do something bold enough to shatter the status quo.

An 80-something woman aimed to shatter stereotypes surrounding older people by showing off her moves on a Spanish TV show.

The results suggest that to stretch something this slight is to shatter it (2 30).