earth-shattering
Example Sentences
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She is now in a relationship with Will Lindsay and last June revealed the "earth-shattering news" that they had lost their baby Phoenix.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
This is not an earth-shattering example of the mysterious contours of human desire.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
For anyone who cares about video games as art and has bemoaned the ever-tightening corporate stranglehold over visual entertainment and its archives, Sony’s disc phaseout is an earth-shattering quake that’s not to be taken lightly.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
In 2022, Sereno returned with a 100-person team and 64 Nigerien guards to excavate the "earth-shattering site".
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
To our jaded twenty-first-century ears, Charlie Christian’s solo on ‘Seven Come Eleven’ may not seem all that earth-shattering, but to musicians of the 1940s it was a green light.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
