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How to use the word shatters in a Sentence?

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It's okay to break my feelings, it's okay to say no, but what is not okay is to play with my feelings; for that's where trust shatters and scars grow.

Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
1 month ago

But every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

Louise Erdrich

added by JokerGem
5 months ago

People need to recognize that there's multiple levels of people affected. It's not just the people who directly saw something or were directly injured or lost someone that they loved, it ripples through a community, it shatters a lot of people's belief about the safety of your community, of the world.

Erika Felix

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

While Delhi is not very significant in electoral terms, a BJP loss there shatters the popular narrative around the BJP's invincibility, a loss in Delhi certainly signals an end to Modi's honeymoon. Furthermore, because it is the capital city, an opposition government, especially one led by the confrontational AAP, would be a constant thorn in the Modi government's side.

Milan Vaishnav

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

While Delhi is not very significant in electoral terms, a BJP loss there shatters the popular narrative around the BJP’s invincibility, a loss in Delhi certainly signals an end to Modi’s honeymoon. Furthermore, because it is the capital city, an opposition government, especially one led by the confrontational AAP, would be a constant thorn in the Modi government’s side.

Milan Vaishnav

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

George Orwell

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, A Memoir

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.

Assyrian Proverb

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14 years ago

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