shatteringly
- a word derived from shatter.
Example Sentences
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The beauty of Schubert tends to be quiet and shatteringly calm, his postcards from the beyond written in lyrical melodies sometimes underlined with nothing more than a chord.
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2024
Even as she and Ernest start a family, Mollie finds herself losing her own relatives, in what somehow feels like both agonizing slow-motion and shatteringly rapid succession.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2023
Sitting on that sheet pan with the heat slowly subsiding made for shatteringly crisp, perfectly stiff rashers of bacon.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2022
"A shatteringly bad outing outside of the protected zone of friendly cable TV nets," Rasmussen Reports said in its review.
From Fox News • Jan. 10, 2022
Then, on that very afternoon when Mrs. Newbolt had been so shatteringly frank to Eleanor, he walked down to the "far end of Maple Street."
From The Vehement Flame by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell
