How to Use shatter in a Sentence

shatter

1 of 2 verb

• The rock shattered the window.
• The end of his marriage shattered him emotionally.
• His dreams were shattered by their rejection.
• Over and over, the glass was shattered and the posters stolen.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024
• During the First World War, the house was shattered by shelling.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2024
• At age 10, he was struck in the back of the head with a stray bullet that shattered his skull.
  — Liz Szabo, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2023
• Vagrants shattered store windows to get a bed for the night in jail.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
• West screamed as a bullet smashed out a window next to him that shattered.
  — Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2023
• Kole Calhoun’s two-run double with two out shattered a 6-6 tie in the 11th.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2023
• The glass of one of the building’s upper-floor windows appears to be shattered.
  — Sara Smart, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
• The front and back windshields of their truck collapsed, and the driver's side windows shattered.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2023
• The arrests shattered the world of Li and other activists.
  — Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
• The Junior Sale of Champions auction has shattered records each of the last two years.
  — Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Feb. 2024
• Advertisement The glass on the main doors began to crack and shattered.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• The night before school, the home is vandalized and a front window is shattered.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
• With viewership up this year, this game may just shatter that record, too.
  — TIME, 29 Jan. 2024
• The agency has received dozens of reports of the ovens overheating, causing the handles to melt or break, and glass in the unit to shatter.
  — Matt Novak / Gizmodo, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
• But the liberal myth Gray most wants to shatter is that people in the West live in free societies.
  — Helena Rosenblatt, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• One good drop or slip onto a hard surface and your brand new glass bottle could shatter.
  — Steven Rowe, Verywell Health, 24 Feb. 2023
• And this has always been somewhat of a mission for West, to push boundaries and shatter glass ceilings.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 19 Dec. 2023
• As parents we are completely shattered at the loss of our baby boy.
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 18 Feb. 2024
• In the essay that lends its title to the book, Ramsey recounts efforts to shatter that silence.
  — Joan Gaylord, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Jan. 2023
• In one scene they are packed behind glass panels which shatter when the webs hit them sending the cute critters pouring in.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• The room above the cellar had been razed, and the second door had been shattered; the Russians below had hung up sheets to prevent the Ukrainian drones from seeing down the stairs.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• In the cutthroat world of reality TV, alliances will be forged, trust will be shattered, and villains will scheme their way to the top.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 13 Sep. 2023
• The car’s front passenger window was shattered and the steering column had been stripped.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 18 July 2023
• But no one told us about the ear-shattering noise, the terrible sounds of battle -- and the complete, utter confusion on the beach.
  — The Oregonian, oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2023
• Doors fell, some of the windows shattered, the ceilings also fell, aside from the water and the electricity and food shortages.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
• Phoenix continues to shatter record after record as the heat wave refuses to let up.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• The severity of the punishment shattered the girl’s sense of self and her trust in school authorities, the girl and her mother said.
  — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023

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shatter

2 of 2 noun

• Cooked in small batches, the falafel shatter in the mouth.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
• On the fourth time around, the GPS falls off, shatters, and gets hit by a car.
  — Lauren Cook, The Cut, 15 May 2018
• The glass portion of the door struck a large planter, causing the glass to shatter.
  — cleveland, 15 Aug. 2020
• When Windows breaks, the whole world hears the shatter.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 10 June 2018
• Don't pull in a jerky way, though—that will make the egg shell shatter.
  — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 26 Apr. 2017
• The deputy approaches the door, lifts his weapon and the glass shatters.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 30 July 2019
• The woman heard the glass shatter and the car horn go off and ran back inside her house.
  — Sarah Horner, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2019
• At any point, the entire vessel could break off the pipe and shatter.
  — Liz Logan, Smithsonian, 13 July 2019
• These are clog-free pumps that are easy to refill and are shatter-proof.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 28 Apr. 2021
• Live outside the box and shatter every rule not made for you.
  — Glamour, 8 Nov. 2021
• The front and back glass survived some drops from head height, but the smaller iPhone 13 Pro’s screen did shatter.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 27 Sep. 2021
• Fish and chips: A shatter-crisp coating of battered fish with fries ($11).
  — Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 20 Mar. 2017
• The footage shows a goat walking up to a glass door, butting its head against the pane, and then running away after the glass shatters.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 21 July 2017
• Thompson, who was awake, heard the glass door shatter, ran to grab her son and was shot once in the buttocks and twice in one of her arms.
  — oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2019
• The containers are durable, shatter-proof, and air-tight to keep products fresh.
  — Lauren Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2023
• The wealthy are paying a fairer share of taxes even as the stock market shatters records.
  — Michael Sebastian, Town & Country, 11 Jan. 2017
• The wealthy are paying a fairer share of taxes even as the stock market shatters records.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Jan. 2017
• Glass can break or shatter, so plastic is safer in that aspect.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2022
• After a brief dance break and a sequence in which the star turns to glass and shatters before our eyes, the two finally kiss.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2018
• Remove the pan and hit the wax with something blunt (such as the handle of a dinner knife) to make the wax shatter, then vacuum up the pieces.
  — Heloise, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2019
• The wave reaches its greatest possible height and shatters in a spray of white.
  — Han Kang, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• The glass travel vial is durable and shatter-resistant.
  — Sian Babish, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2020
• Without the bread slices smothering the shatter and snap of bacon and lettuce, there’s a lot more crunch.
  — Melissa Clark, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2018
• The display will be more shatter-resistant than the Series 8.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 11 July 2022
• Tajikistan is the poorest of the 15 former Soviet republics, all of which emerged out of the shatter zone of empires.
  — Anna Sherman Maxime Fossat, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• His six Fuel comrades went crashing to the stage floor when Lee hit them with an in-person earth shatter.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 9 July 2021
• Dang’s take on Vietnamese street food shatters gloriously with your first bite of the scorched rice crust.
  — Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• The woman ran to the front door and saw the suspect shatter the window with the crowbar, then strike and kick the door repeatedly, cracking it.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 May 2021
• That CO2 foam sneaks into cracks and shatters the rock, allowing for more rising.
  — Erik Klemetti, WIRED, 5 May 2017
• When the bottle hits the wall, the bottle shatters spreading the kinetic energy out across a wide area.
  — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 31 May 2018

Last Updated: 3 May 2024