Definition of shattering in English:
shattering
adjectiveˈʃat(ə)rɪŋˈʃædərɪŋ
Very shocking or upsetting.
he found it a shattering experience
Example sentencesExamples
- In attempting to find a grain of good in such shattering events, Virgo maintains that " lots of things that happen off the field make you stronger on it ".
- It is a depiction of shattering, chronic, inescapable pain and suffering that refuses to slide into self-pity.
- Rather predictably, the adoption of a much more rhetorically republican tone by the Irish government produced a shattering blow to such hopes.
- This shattering statistic crashed into Downing Street, where brows were being mopped and arrangements stood down.
- He and his wife had suffered a shattering blow when their only daughter died in the crash of a small plane.
- And there really ought not to be a dry eye in the theatre by the time it reaches its shattering conclusion.
- A woman who claims she was abused as a child in a council-run care home, has come forward after reading the shattering accounts of others reported in the Yorkshire Post.
- We will win victories we cannot now imagine, and live through shattering defeats.
- I can only begin to imagine the shattering impact of the killing on local people.
- The disaster also deals a shattering blow to the railway industry as a whole.
- It proved a shattering wake-up call.
- However, the contender did manage some shattering attacks of his own.
- The one thing I certainly wasn't prepared for was the shattering news that I was in perfect health.
- There may come to us some shattering calamity or dreadful disappointment or some moral failure.
- At this stage in their development, the camera focuses on the parents' reaction to the shattering news.
- I received some shattering news: My story was rejected.
- But her success came despite a shattering letter from the Home Office the day before she sat two Maths exams at Thomas Rotherham College in South Yorkshire.
- Some describe the knowledge of having to undergo an amputation as the most shattering moment in their lives while others disclose having privately contemplated suicide.
- We should roll the credits right now on this desensitised approach to the important responsibility of appropriate timing by Hollywood towards such shattering world events.
- They need to bounce back from the shattering blow of defeat at the weekend at Hull City.
Derivatives
adverb
A shatteringly intense dissection of British mismanagement is promised at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds from Wednesday to Saturday.
Example sentencesExamples
- In an afterword, she explains that she could never have written this ‘deeply private’ book without that sheltering expectation of anonymity, so shatteringly confessional is it.
- But how sad to see a shatteringly relevant historical and philosophical clash shrunk to a chamber piece of mere personal conflict, and even that poorly executed.
- Much has been made of her operatic vocal range - a four-octave span that runs from a low infernal growl through shatteringly high screams - but there is a hell of a lot more to her performance than staggering vocal technique.
- They have also intrigued and inspired others, both directly and indirectly, since the time of his early, shatteringly brilliant, recordings.
Definition of shattering in US English:
shattering
adjectiveˈʃædərɪŋˈSHadəriNG
Very shocking or upsetting.
he found it a shattering experience
Example sentencesExamples
- There may come to us some shattering calamity or dreadful disappointment or some moral failure.
- He and his wife had suffered a shattering blow when their only daughter died in the crash of a small plane.
- I received some shattering news: My story was rejected.
- We should roll the credits right now on this desensitised approach to the important responsibility of appropriate timing by Hollywood towards such shattering world events.
- It is a depiction of shattering, chronic, inescapable pain and suffering that refuses to slide into self-pity.
- It proved a shattering wake-up call.
- I can only begin to imagine the shattering impact of the killing on local people.
- A woman who claims she was abused as a child in a council-run care home, has come forward after reading the shattering accounts of others reported in the Yorkshire Post.
- However, the contender did manage some shattering attacks of his own.
- They need to bounce back from the shattering blow of defeat at the weekend at Hull City.
- In attempting to find a grain of good in such shattering events, Virgo maintains that " lots of things that happen off the field make you stronger on it ".
- Rather predictably, the adoption of a much more rhetorically republican tone by the Irish government produced a shattering blow to such hopes.
- The disaster also deals a shattering blow to the railway industry as a whole.
- And there really ought not to be a dry eye in the theatre by the time it reaches its shattering conclusion.
- We will win victories we cannot now imagine, and live through shattering defeats.
- At this stage in their development, the camera focuses on the parents' reaction to the shattering news.
- The one thing I certainly wasn't prepared for was the shattering news that I was in perfect health.
- This shattering statistic crashed into Downing Street, where brows were being mopped and arrangements stood down.
- Some describe the knowledge of having to undergo an amputation as the most shattering moment in their lives while others disclose having privately contemplated suicide.
- But her success came despite a shattering letter from the Home Office the day before she sat two Maths exams at Thomas Rotherham College in South Yorkshire.