That is to say, in this case if we bore a hole at a steep angle into the rock, we may be able to shatter part of it without hurting ourselves.
Why the mere sight of Colvin, a chance glimpse in some public place such as when they two had first met, might shatterhis own carefully calculated chances.
More than frequently a shrill vicious "whigge" as the Lee-Metford bullets clip the air, or shatter to a flattened lead mushroom against a stone, causes an involuntary duck.
Finally some ruffian, with a pock-marked visage, seized Marynia's violin and brandished it, desiring to shatter it on the wall.
The Jewish youth began to shatter the old idols, disregarding the outcry of the masses that had bowed down before them.
The hand which dealt out blows could not disseminate enlightenment; the hammer which was lifted to shatter Jewish separatism had only the effect of hardening it.
He felt pity for the ignorant multitude who laid their offerings upon the shrine; and yet he felt that it would shatter their happiness instead of adding to it were they to know that the deity they worshiped was a myth.
The grim facts of the world, seen from their lowest level, seem to shatter it to atoms.
I have said that the facts of life seem often to us, and are felt often by some of us, to shatter it to atoms; to riddle it through and through with shot.
I do not wish to shatter any of your enthusiasms or ideals, but I do wish to suggest a consideration or two that may calm and sober them.
Doubts and fears are like chills and fevers, which shake and shatter the vital economy to its center.
To beat, bruise, and shatter the house in which we live is to do violence to the dweller therein.
Fadique gazes down at her with a swift searching glance, terrified by one word to shatter the rapturous conviction which her trouble gave him.
He will break thy heart, he will shatter its chords, he will trample out from its delicate framework every sound that now makes musical the common air, and swells into unison with the harps of angels.
It seems to say: So shall the spoiler come, 60 The season that shall shatter your fair leaves, Gay children of the summer!
And dost thou thus, Lord of all might, fulfil With wreck and tempests thy eternal will, Shatter the arms in which weak kingdoms trust, And strew their scattered ensigns in the dust?
He writes to Müller: "Your letters shatter my tender nerves.
Then other tales that shatter one's belief in all things and folk of good repute.
The water lapped and muttered, and now and again a fish jumped, with the shatter of broken glass, blurring the peace of the reflected heavens.
It would be horrible if I could convince you, shatter you.
He had intended to use her formal name only, but the nearer word rushed out and seemed to shatter the magic that held him off.
You could frighten me, horribly; but you couldn't shatter me.
Solitude and darkness are my covering, And my heart a tomb; Smite and shatter it, O Gabriel!
You have the very justifiable opinion of me that I am likely to shatter all the glass in my way, and break my own skull into the bargain.
Shatter it as the clay of the founder Around the golden image.
But the laws of physics shatter any such illusion and bid us paint a very different picture.
Reason and unreason seemed to have entered into a covenant to shatter the gigantic structure of Talmudic Judaism.
But from two other quarters, by two quite opposite characters, weighty blows against Judaism were delivered, threatening completely to shatter it.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron, Like a potter's vessel shalt thou shatter them.
By a daring image Jehovah is represented as dealing the beasts of prey, who prowl round the psalmist with open mouth, the buffets which shatter their jaws and dislodge their teeth, thus making them powerless to harm him.
It seemed to the frantic Cubs that they couldn't shatter the tight defense.
Pat and his teammates began to play less cautiously, always watching for a chance to shatter the defense of the Cubs.
There must have been a perfect hailstorm of stones poured upon it, thus to shatter the exquisite toy, so lately the admiration of the capital.
Margaret Giese will shatter the instrument and our nerves at the same time if we do not put an end to this torment.
To take him at his word, to shatter his ideal, and see if the love he thought so invincible could really endure.
She knew now that she could taste of these final dregs by one means only--by seeing her own deeds used as the weapon wherewith to shatter the happiness of the man she loved far more dearly then life.
Often we strike too hard and shatter a limb or break a tooth.
If the god should rise," they said, "his head would shatter the roof.
Seeing the issue is to shatter them resolutely--according to the opinion of our friend the printer--I shall tell you what happened to me the other day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shatter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
