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Example sentences for: shattering

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(McTeer's decision to play Nora's marriage as erotically electric makes Nora's decision to leave all the more difficult, and all the more shattering.)
While the neighbors of Harris and Klebold smiled on them as clean-cut polite kids and assumed they were shattering glass for "some kind of art project," their schoolmates knew they were into Nazism, idolized Hitler, and played with guns.
Unusual or extreme phenotypes, such as large fruit or seed size, intense color, sweet flavor, or pleasing aroma are often selected by humans and maintained in their cultivars for aesthetic reasons, while synchronous ripening or inhibition of seed shattering (a dispersal mechanism) are selected to facilitate harvest.
Shattering Glass-Steagall, Redux
The NYT front page analysis spotlights the (predictable) shattering of the bipartisanship illusion, a theme that resonates throughout today's coverage.