shatter

I didn’t yet know how the attacks would shatter our country’s invincibility and sear our souls for a generation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The force of the explosion was strong enough to shatter some of the first- and second-floor windows of a nearby apartment building.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Nvidia will almost certainly shatter that record this year: The consensus estimate is $217 billion, and rising.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

"I'm an angel, I'm a demon, I'm a psycho for no reason," she sings, channelling my cat's personality over a drum sound that could shatter windows.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

It seemed ironic that the very love for books that had nourished my dreams of a better life was about to shatter them.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Joyce said the tattoo breakdown occurs when a laser targets the ink particles and shatters them into more manageable particles for your immune system to metabolise.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

The top shatters just slightly under a knife, giving way to a plush, chocolate-saturated center streaked with melted pockets.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

After a fall shatters his ankle, his stepchildren dump him with his daughter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Mistakes prove costly for the Rams in a season-ending 31-27 loss to the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC title game that shatters their Super Bowl hopes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026

The glass is— The glass shatters under my hand, and water spills onto the floor.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

"I couldn't stay in my seat anymore. The windows partially shattered, the stones from the track came into the carriage. It was really shocking. I'm still shaking," he added.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

"The windows partially shattered, the stones from the track came into the carriage. It was really shocking. I'm still shaking."

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

But does Kirk think of herself as a shattered, useless person now, a year after her husband’s killing?

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

“It was systematic. They entered the depots and stole everything they could,” said Umaima Abdul-Rahman Al-Sanusi, one of the museum’s curators, as her eyes scanned a shattered display case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

When the jar hit him and shattered, his fluttering shroud soaked up the liquor, and the dervish was taken, like the enemies of Shadrach, with a sudden burst.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

As the luminous, sweet and steel-spined Doralee, she doesn’t just hold her own, she shines, shattering the same sexist assumptions that often plagued Dolly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Both apps allowed wagers on the number of “explosive diarrhea” cyclosporiasis and measles cases this year, with both outbreaks shattering records.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

"Taken together, that risks shattering every seasonal record -- and driving even more severe effects worldwide," said Guterres.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

There had also been a shattering event in Paris for the second year in a row.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

His faceplate took the brunt of the blow, the safety glass shattering into hundreds of small cubes.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir