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Example sentences for "shattered"

Lexicographically close words:
sharps; sharpshooter; sharpshooters; sharpshooting; shatter; shattering; shatters; shaue; shauen; shave
  1. The winter passed with as much comfort as the severe climate and a shattered town would permit.

  2. Full many a project that never was hatched Falls down, and gets shattered beyond be- ing patched; And luckily, too!

  3. When the air first shattered with that shock, Down ran the mouse into her hole.

  4. The mastiff howled at village door, The oaks were shattered on the green; Woe was the hour--for never more That hapless countess e'er was seen!

  5. Fresh troops from Burgundy and Flanders were on their march to join him; but he would not be dissuaded from his resolution to fight, and he resolved to try his fortune once more with his dispirited and shattered army.

  6. The first interruption to the rapid progress of the two troops, and at the same time the first intimation they had of the revolt of the peons, was their riding into the midst of the column shattered by the sham lancers of Oregon Oliver.

  7. The brink of the barranca was armed by stony mounds and the wrecks of half a dozen pines of the giant species, which must have been an imposing sight for miles around before the lightning or the tempest shattered them.

  8. Indeed, the latter, instead of carrying out his implied threat, tottered back and leaned against the cottonwood, just under one arrow, and with the other shattered shaft bristling at his shoulder.

  9. Disdaining the shattered mussel shell, he used his hands as scoops, and presently unearthed a buffalo skin.

  10. The loss of time was as fatal as it was singular under the rule of a Napoleon whose uncle had so often shattered his foes by swift movements of troops.

  11. His insight and skill had warded off a deadly flank attack on Schahofski's shattered corps at Plevna on July 30, and his prowess had contributed largely to the capture of Lovtcha on September 3.

  12. This being shattered by the Crimean War, Alexander II.

  13. This, together with the outflanking movement which their increasing numbers enabled them to carry out against the French left wing at Forbach, decided the day; and Frossard's corps fell back shattered towards the corps of Bazaine.

  14. Marsilius looked upon his shattered host and saw them fall back in panic, for they were dismayed because of the Franks.

  15. Serina stared wildly at the shattered rail, then at the English man-of-war.

  16. Then his fingers touched what he sought, and closed about the glassy neck of the shattered flask.

  17. High, dark thunderheads had risen up in the south, and already spatters of heavy tropical rain ricocheted off the shattered railing of the quartergallery.

  18. Then he rose and moved toward the shattered windows of the stern to catch a last look at the island before it was mantled in the quick tropical night.

  19. A flash shattered the night, as a tongue of flame torched upward.

  20. No conclusion could be formed but that Clithero had been here, had discovered the violence which had been committed on his property, and, in the first transport of his indignation, had shattered it to pieces.

  21. I endeavoured to recall the past; but the past was too much in contradiction to the present, and my intellect was too much shattered by external violence, to allow me accurately to review it.

  22. When Harold came to the library with the messenger, they found the beautiful portal of the building quite destroyed, and the windows lying in pitiful shattered fragments.

  23. The little maid stepped up and daintily poured cream upon the shattered pie, and without more ado the King began to eat with his dagger.

  24. The shattered windows had been screened; the broken marbles removed; so that there was nothing to reproach Red Rex or to speak of discord.

  25. But the majority of the Manyema had had their confidence in the Arabs dismally shattered by the event of the previous day, and had dispersed to their homes.

  26. When I brought what remained of him home here, the brains seemed to me have been blown out of the house too; it was so shattered and ruined.

  27. The carriage rocked as upon the billows of the sea, and the windows were shattered to fragments.

  28. How it shattered Vein and tissue to the bone; Dropt me faint and blood-bespattered, Helpless on a bed of stone!

  29. All traffic had been halted, and a group of engineers could be seen examining the shattered pier.

  30. Several members of the squad went beneath the bridge to inspect the damage and collect shattered sections of the wrecked boat.

  31. This letter, though shattered by the sharp shot of Dr.

  32. The inner wall preserves the road from the loose stones, which the shattered steep above it would pour down.

  33. Curiously, Bill had no tinge of the resentment he might have expected that his dream should come half-true only to be shattered like the bubble it was.

  34. Virginia, too, had received some echo of that shock, probably from Bill's body as he shattered down.

  35. And far up against the sky-line loom shattered towers and crumbling castles, whence you seem to see trains of steel-clad knights issuing forth to do battle with the Moor.

  36. Time has spared the famous race of Cordovan horses, and many a poor hidalgo rides into the town on a steed which if sold in London might redeem his shattered fortunes.

  37. For some moments her arms hung there outside the shattered window-glass, and a shower of crimson drops from her fingers splashed on the paving-stones below.

  38. She could see her shattered window-panes up above.

  39. A shattered gateway and ruined walls, are all that now remain of the once extensive palace of Knes Lasar Czar Serbski; but the chapel is as perfect as it was when it occupied the centre of the imperial quadrangle.

  40. They shattered the Greek empire, the last feeble bulwark of Europe, and paved the way for those ultimate successes of the Asiatic conquerors, which a timely union of strength might have prevented.

  41. The portico was shattered to fragments, and remained as it was at the close of the revolution.

  42. On his right rose the strip of cedar forest; on his left he was shut in by towering walls of black and shattered rock.

  43. As he fell, Wabi fired once, and there came to their ears shriek after shriek of agony as a second pursuer fell with a shattered leg.

  44. In the lovely English garden they set him to weaving and painting, as a means of soothing the shattered nerves.

  45. His shattered leg was mended by one of those miracles of modern war surgery, though he never again would dig his spurred heels into the pine of a G.

  46. Tom's eyes ranged round the bare walls and the shattered windows, and he raised his eyebrows in astonishment at the other's illusions.

  47. How was it that these words scattered all his late musings, as the hurricane tears and severs the cloud-masses, and sends them riven and shattered through the sky?

  48. The mantel was shattered and the little stove.

  49. So she asked for strength, and then sat there for a time, letting the peace of the old church quiet her, as had the broken walls and shattered altar of that other church, across the channel.

  50. From Nieuport for some miles inland only the shattered remnant of the Belgian Army held the line.

  51. I however dread the severity of a winter upon his shattered frame.

  52. So down to the foot of the mountain they went, and immediately they reached their base camp this awful earthquake shattered the ridge and showered down bergs on both the upper and lower glaciers.

  53. Illustration: The Northeast Ridge shattered by the earthquake in July, 1912.

  54. We realized that the passage of this shattered ridge was an exceedingly risky thing at best.

  55. It was necessary to make the traverse high up on this peak instead of around its base, so much had its ice and snow been shattered by the earthquake on the lower portions.

  56. Sidenote: The Shattered Ridge] So our task lay plain and onerous, enormously more dangerous and laborious than that which our predecessors encountered.

  57. The upper glacier also bore plain signs of the earthquake that had shattered the ridge.

  58. Illustration: Cutting a staircase three miles long in the ice of the shattered ridge.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shattered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aggravated; broken; burst; busted; cracked; cut; damaged; embittered; harmed; hurt; impaired; imperfect; injured; irritated; lacerated; mangled; mutilated; piece; rent; ruptured; scalded; scorched; senile; shabby; shattered; slashed; slit; smashed; split; sprung; tatter; torn; undone; weakened; worse; worsened