Example Sentences

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Cool and tangy yogurt, fruit that tastes unmistakably like itself, crunch that shatters and then yields.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

For smaller smartphone makers with thinner profit margins, the uptick in memory costs shatters the notion that component costs fall over time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Whether the Fed supports or shatters that perception depends on what it says, not what it does.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 27, 2025

A government spokesman said the drop in pupils "remains firmly within historical patterns" and "shatters the myth" of a private school exodus.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2025

I yank down on the switch and it cracks off and shatters on the floor.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera