shatter
Example Sentences
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"Over that year, as a family, we watched her shatter into pieces," Michelle said.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
Nothing, it seems, can shatter this persecution complex.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2026
The hostilities “threatened to shatter the ‘no-war-no-peace’ situation,” that has existed since the end of the Tigray war, Oxford Analytica’s senior Africa analyst Matt Ward said in February.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
It wouldn’t take much to shatter that fragile equilibrium.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026
I was afraid it would slip and fall onto the tile and shatter into a million pieces.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing shatter
Lesson 11
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