Down her course a serpent star Coils and shatters at her heels; Peals the horn exulting, peals Plaintive, is it near or far.
What curse on earth's improvident, When the dread trumpet shatters rest, Is wreaked, she knows, yet smiles content As cradle rocked from breast.
Every sea that the vessel shatters sends up a flying waterspout; and the frost acts with amazing suddenness, so that the spars, the rigging, and the deck gather layer after layer of ice.
That bird is the cloud; and the worm, pebble, or herb, which shatters mountains is the raindrop.
Till at last as a strong man's wrenching Shatters a brittle vase, The lustier arms of the Westland Shattered the elder race.
He who first made us feel what chains we wore, He also strikes the blow that shatters them, He at last saves us--our best citizen!
We can also perceive that if God shatters our sanctuary, perhaps He does so in order to prevent us from making a fetich of it.
In the first place, it shatters the pride which is the chief hindrance to the confession of sin.
A mass of black rock flung into a still lake shatters the images of the girdling woods and the overarching sky.
Any drop of sin poured into your cup of communion with God, shatters the cup and spills the wine.
His voice wavers and breaks into a wailing as of a crying child; then his teeth snap fiercely; then he shatters the night stillness with a beast's cry, like the howling of a dog baying at the moon.
Suddenly the surly detonation of a 75 shatters the peace; soon all the guns hidden in the wood intone a brutal chorus; the clamour envelops us; each shot seems to hurtle past with a violence sufficient to burst the gun firing it.
Now and again rain shatters down into the rich leafage--a solemn noise; and thrushes are vocal; but these sounds do not disturb the impressive quietness.
Stands to reason--where them great things comes whoppin' into it over and over, it shatters out a lot.
So, too, there is such a suggestion in the flavor and the keeping quality and, as with the parent, the fruit neither cracks nor shatters and therefore ships well.
Noah shatters badly and does not keep nor ship at all well, and buyers therefore do not care for it.
He endeavours to stop the Hero, who shatters the Spear.
Not unfrequently the lion, if he has not been struck down, throws himself on the melebda, shatters the barrier, and devours the hunter behind his demolished rampart.
He therefore removes the clog by means of a small saw, or picklock; at the worst he turns the padlock to the outside of the animal's legs and shatters it with a pistol ball, or else fills it with powder and blows it open.
The word literally means treason or rebellion, and by it Amos at one blow shatters the whole fabric.
This mighty word shatters all cowering terror and abject prostration.
The first burst of the judgment shatters dreams of innocence, and the cowering wretches see their sin by the lurid light.
A common, peaceful explosion of powder magazines at home not only shatters all the windows in the neighborhood, but also shatters the faith of people for miles around in the doctrine of resurrection of the body.
He shatters the leaves with forced fingers rude, in the sense that his subject is not of his own choosing.
He is a maniac, haunted by spectres and scourged with a whip of scorpions, and his red-eyed fury makes all space a hell and shatters silence with the shrieks of the damned.
As this thought passes through his mind, his foot shatters the alms-bowl, the contents of which are spilt all over him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shatters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
