shatterproof
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of shatterproof
Example Sentences
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The synagogue already had security and shatterproof glass windows, Landsberg said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
Another person who has worked with Malinin called him “cocky,” in the brazen shatterproof manner of a teenager who has beaten the world and realizes he can keep doing it.
From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2023
Department of Homeland Security in late 2021, Maricopa strengthened doors, added shatterproof film on windows and bought more first aid kits, according to the documents.
From Reuters • Nov. 6, 2022
Other windows in the building and surrounding office buildings were upgraded to be shatterproof or bulletproof in the years after Sept. 11, 2001, and those survived the melee.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2022
I know why there is no glass, in front of the watercolor picture of blue irises, and why the window opens only partly and why the glass in it is shatterproof.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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