Example Sentences

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I photographed the sweetgum tree outside my Brooklyn window, noting when it leafed into a bushy chlorophylled curtain or when it dropped fruit that fell to the ground like unshattered ornaments.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2023

In an unshattered year, the number is 16.

From Time Magazine Archive

Keeping him gently in place with one hand, I pick up the unshattered half of the butternut squash that’s lying in the produce section.

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins

She would be in the dream, sometimes with her father, sometimes not, running from house to house, unable to find an unshattered mirror to hold the fragments of her terror.

From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers

Nor is it often tough-fibred enough to weather the stress of the first years of married life; and come through the equinoctials of the inevitable adjustment unshattered and unwrecked.

From The Genius by Potter, Margaret Horton