Words similar to shattering

Example sentences for: shattering

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To commemorate Robinson's shattering of the color barrier in sports 50 years ago, no player will ever again be assigned the number 42.
The Treaty of Fontainebleau in 1762 brought a shattering blow to the population of Louisiana.
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.
(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.)