1) His mother's death was a shattering blow.

2) It was a shattering blow to her pride.

3) The typewriter was shattering continously.

4) I've had a shattering day.

5) The blast caused extensive damage, shattering the ground-floor windows.

6) The bang came suddenly, echoing across the buildings, shattering glass.

7) It was a shattering schedule - seven meetings in two days.

8) She heard the crash of shattering glass as the vehicles collided.

9) The news was shattering.

10) The news of his death came as a shattering blow.

11) The bullet lodged in the sergeant's leg,(http:///shattering.html) shattering his thigh bone.

12) He related his shattering war experiences in his autobiography.

13) The glass tube shattering in a Thermos bottle?

14) The effects of verbal abuse can be shattering.

15) Its suppression after Everett's death was a shattering blow.

16) Mungo imagined them shattering, burying the floor in a tidal wave of crystal.

17) They had the shattering, overwhelming strength of earthquake and hurricane and volcano.

18) That morning it was a matter of blinding, shattering, choking importance.

19) How much punishment could the heart take before shattering into fragments?

20) The experience of their daughter's death had been absolutely shattering.

21) Ellington mourned deeply when Strayhorn died, second only to his shattering grief for his beloved mother.

22) They are the spearhead of the Imperial army, capable of shattering almost any enemy line under the right circumstances.

23) Rajam's death from typhoid in 1939 was the most shattering blow of Narayan's life.

24) He imagined himself telling her, and saw her tiny face falling, shattering on the sidewalk like a small mirror.

25) Gunpowder is still made use of in those quarries where a splitting rather than a shattering action is required.

26) Finally, there had been the last few months, when everything had fallen apart with such shattering swiftness.

27) When at last he allowed the wave to break, she broke with it, mind and body shattering, fragmenting in rapture.

28) Visiting the supermarket might have been a transforming moment for Alexei, a way of easing his contempt and shattering his paralysis.

29) Uncertainties about the efficacy of volume expansion on freezing in rock shattering have encouraged the examination of other possibilities.

30) The car reels and swerves up on to the pavement, crashing into a shopfront and shattering itself and the window panes.

1) His mother's death was a shattering blow.

31) For Kim and her widowed father Bob, the sudden intrusion into their specially close lives was shattering.

32) The shattering plate might as well have struck him, for the pain and the misery on his face.

33) Once she stuffed her diaphragm into one of my neon lights, breaking it, shattering it.

34) Audience response is shattering - like a massive, roaring animal.

35) He died for hours, shattering, fragmenting, spinning away over the tiles.

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38) A shell tore through his back, shattering his shoulder and collarbone and biting into his spine.

39) She heard the crash of shattering glass as the cars clashed.

40) A glass partition in the typing-pool imploded with a shattering roar.

41) The breakers were as high as the houses, shattering against the sea wall and on to the beach.

42) At the moment of its shattering hell would implode on them from all directions.

43) A bullet went crashing through the rear window, shattering the glass behind me.

44) They provide backing for such shattering conclusions as the following: s fly.

45) They were drilled in by the shattering noise around him.

46) We landed hard and the wood beneath our feet just flew apart, shattering into staves.

47) The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. George Orwell 

48) Amid all these shattering events I had little time to try to find out what had happened to Eric.

49) It smashed against the rusted freight car behind her, shattering the glass exterior and buckling the sensitive anode.

50) It overturned after hitting a car, shattering the incubator which was keeping tiny tot Victoria Elliot alive.

51) Some people live with a more or less permanent anxiety that this shattering event could happen at any time.

52) Stephan said, swimming up, shattering peace and calm with meaningless talk.

53) Richard Gough will make his comeback for Rangers tomorrow only six weeks after shattering his jaw in four places.

54) A framed photograph of Jimmy Hill was dislodged behind the bar and fell, shattering bottles and glasses.

55) And at the same moment she had the shattering thought that perhaps she had imagined the whole thing.

56) Then the local union official delivered the shattering reply: no, our raft could not be brought into the little port.

57) The iron bar struck the frame and the glass simultaneously, shattering the glass, sending shards spraying into the kitchen.

58) The results were not earth shattering, but people close to the epicenter felt the shocks clearly.

59) In the darkness, the big jet skidded into the ground, shattering into pieces on the other side of the ridge.

60) A Wolves goal immediately afterwards was another shattering blow to automatic promotion hopes.

61) No tempest is capable of shattering his firm determination.

62) There was nothing earth - shattering, no strident revelation.

63) It began as a deep rumble, shattering the predawn silence.

64) LJ throws a bottle and it breaks the glass of a nearby wall hanging. Hale ducks to avoid the shattering glass, giving Lisa and LJ opportunity to scatter.

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68) It quicky shows what looks like the windows of the Great Hall shattering , but I'm not sure.

69) This definition rendered a historic service by shattering the unscientific, reactionary view which regarded man as a purely spiritual being or a simple biological being.

70) These are useful in hard rock mining where high brisance, high shattering effects, are desired.

71) For an erstwhile growth stock , these numbers are shattering, and analysts down-rated the share which is now in my buy range.

72) When I told the harpy I wanted to invite Jocelyn over for dinner, the only response was the sound of shattering glass from her room, something heavy and fragile thrown against the wall.

73) Brisance: The shattering effect of the sudden release of energy in an explosion.

74) A familiar example of resonance is the shattering of a glass by a particular sonic vibration.

75) The places exceeding standards in noise were mainly concentrated in the areas of clinkering, discharging, shattering and transporting of raw materials.

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77) The whole park was astir with the sound of, and trees growing, all shattering ceaselessly.

78) "Saraband" (2003, Ingmar Bergman): Emotions of shattering power; family, memory, death, and the black sun of a creative force that not only won't die but consumes anyone it can attract.

79) The experience was so shattering to Tschaikovsky that he attempted to end his life by standing up to his neck at night in the freezing waters of the Neva River.

80) A famous commercial from the 1970s showed Ella Fitzgerald shattering a wine glass with ease through Memorex speakers, and the trick has been repeated many times with amplification.

81) I have come to a conclusion that isn't earth - shattering.

82) The crossbow snapped. A bolt passed within a foot of him, shattering the crust of frozen snow that had plugged the closest crenel.