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How to use the word SHATTER in a Sentence?

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An eight-figure auction result in the sports market was the stuff of fantasy just a decade ago, we always knew this card would shatter records and expectations. But that doesn't make it any less of a thrill to be part of an auction during which a single item breaks the eight-figure threshold for the first time. It's an extraordinary accomplishment for our wonderful team of sports experts at Heritage Auctions shared with CNN. And, of course, we could not have done it without Anthony Giordano, Anthony Giordano, who put Anthony Giordano trust in Heritage Auctions.Mantle to bring this amazing card to market.

Chris Ivy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You see, [Russia] tried to suffocate us, destabilize us, and shatter us from the inside for the last 300 years. But they failed. I'm still sitting here with you, a foreign minister of independent Ukraine. We know the threat, we understand it, we learned how to live with it, and we stand for a just cause.

Dmytro Kuleba

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Economically, because of sanctions that will be slammed on Russia immediately. Militarily, because we are not the country that will give up. This is our land, we will be defending it, you see, [Russia] tried to suffocate us, destabilize us, and shatter us from the inside for the last 300 years. But they failed. I'm still sitting here with you, a foreign minister of independent Ukraine. We know the threat, we understand it, we learned how to live with it, and we stand for a just cause.

Dmytro Kuleba

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When we see migrants used as a weapon, when we see disinformation used as a weapon, when we see gas used as a weapon, and soldiers and their guns … these are not separate elements, they are all part of a broad strategy to shatter Europe. We should see everything that is happening east of the EU border and inside of the EU as part of a general effort. These are not separate events taking place.

Dmytro Kuleba

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Somehow we've weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken, but simply unfinished, we've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it. Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy. And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.

Amanda Gorman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy. And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.

Amanda Gorman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Death Valley would not only shatter daily records for all four days, making Death Valley the hottest September run of heat on record, but also set a new September all-time high.

Pedram Javaheri

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I got hit right in the eye, i remember seeing the lens of my gas mask shatter and then closing my eye and just blood inside of my mask.

Trip Jennings

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Dogs have been known to dig under or jump over fences, break tethers or even shatter windows in response to their fireworks fears.

Temma Martin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It would take something like that to shatter this newfound confidence.

Michael Novogratz

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Vladimir Putin seeks to shatter NATO. Vladimir Putin aims to diminish the appeal of the Western democratic model and attempts to undermine America's moral authority.

Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

For the first time since World War II, Russia has been the nation that has redrawn international borders by force in Georgia and Ukraine while pursuing veto authority over their neighbors' diplomatic, economic and security decisions, president Putin seeks to shatter NATO. President Putin aims to diminish the appeal of the Western democratic model and attempts to undermine America's moral authority, President Putin actions are designed not to challenge our arms at this point but to undercut and compromise our belief in our ideals.

James Mattis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Let us hope there is a wave of young women running for office in America, and let's be sure we support them, in every way we can. Let's help them shatter stereotypes and lift each other up.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I think we are seeing a great political party shatter before our eyes, but we are witnessing history. Something important is ending. It is hard to believe what replaces it will be better. No one knows where this goes. The top of The Republican Party and the bottom have split.

Peggy Noonan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it.

Bill Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Major League Baseball prides Major League Baseball on providing fans in our ballparks with unparalleled proximity and access to our players and the game taking place on the field, at the same time, it is important that fans have the option to sit behind protective netting or in other areas of the ballpark where foul balls and bats( that slip out of players' hands or shatter) are less likely to enter.

Commissioner Rob Manfred

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I’ve spoken with her a few times, she’s interested in becoming a boxer. If the UFC ever gives her permission, we're here, maybe some collaboration. It would be very interesting. We can shatter records. I can imagine four million pay-per-views for Ronda’s very first fight.

De La Hoya

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We will gather forces in Israel and around the world to shatter the lies of our enemies, and we will fight for Israel's right to live in peace and security, to live at all.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We've all seen how a soprano can shatter a glass with the pitch of her voice, instead of using sound waves, we use the swirls generated in the structure by the wind.

David Yanez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The purpose of that kind of bomb is to shred flesh, shatter bone, set people on fire and cause people to suffer painful deaths.

William Weinreb

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In 2016, it is time to shatter that glass ceiling and put a woman in the White House, it is time to finish the job. We want Hillary Clinton to be president of the United States.

Ellen Malcolm

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Norman Cousins

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

Edward Hoagland

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon

George Walker Bush

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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