8 sentences with “shattered”

A glass of water fell to the ground. The glass was made of crystal and shattered into a thousand pieces.

The seven teenagers in the back seat were ejected through the shattered rear window.

The book told how huge waves crashed through the shattered windows of the B-17 Flying Fortress.

From the euphoria many felt at the beginning of the war, the survivors were psychologically shattered.

However one interprets the events of the period, the simple fact remains: the political unity of the Roman Empire was shattered by the end of the fifth century CE.

The impregnability of Rome was itself one of the founding stories the Romans told themselves; the Romans had long sworn that the Celtic sack of 387 BC would be their last, and yet the Goths had shattered that myth.

The contrast was all the more striking because both sides of the Cold War divide began in similar circumstances - shattered by the Second World War - and yet within a decade the West was in the midst of an unprecedented economic boom while the East remained in relative economic stagnation.

That civilisation emerged from the First World War, from four years of bloodshed, economically shattered, politically disunited, and in many ways sceptical of the possibility of further progress. It was in this uncertain context that the most destructive political philosophy in modern history emerged: fascism, and its even more horrific offshoot, Nazism.