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Example sentences for: shattering

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Every day except Sunday, at one o’clock in the afternoon, a loud boom splits the air, shattering the calm of visitors yet prompting locals merely to glance at their wristwatches.
To commemorate Robinson's shattering of the color barrier in sports 50 years ago, no player will ever again be assigned the number 42.
Pundits are bewailing the shattering of their faith that Gore was the One Honest Man in the administration.
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.