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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.
(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.)
I think the new personality-modified Newt is mainly the product of his shattering experiences in 1995 and 1996.
The Treaty of Fontainebleau in 1762 brought a shattering blow to the population of Louisiana.
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.