shatter
verb (used with object)
to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
unshattered
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a word derived from
shatter.
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
On it came, with a steady continuous roar, as if chaos were about to be restored, and the crashing wreck of elements were being hurled in mad fury against the yet unshattered portions of creation.
From The Red Eric by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
