shatter
Example Sentences
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“It almost feels normal — obviously it’s not normal. There’s shattered glass still on the ground and we’re surrounded by rubble,” Mackston said.
From Los Angeles Times
At the scene, glass from a bus stop lay shattered on the pavement.
From BBC
We want to help protect regional stability, fight terrorism, and rebuild our shattered cities and towns.
Her LP is a narrative of troubled love and shattered small-town lives in which sparkly country songs sit alongside drones that conjure the hum of electrical lines snaking down a highway.
It is a new phenomenon in the city, he said, because for the first time in decades "they are not afraid of shattering".
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.