shattering
Example Sentences
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The movie — starring Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver and Jeremy Allen White — benefited from positive reviews from moviegoers, but it stopped short of shattering expectations.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
As someone who is blind I focus on the sounds, and I heard the shattering of glass.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026
Relationships with a seal, an elephant and a rhino, for example — obsessive, protective, loving friendships — all seemed to end if not in outright tragedy, then in shattering heartbreak.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
Willy Loman has no home to return to in the stark and shattering new revival of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” on Broadway.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
I asked again, because my world was shattering, and I needed the truth to build it back up.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
