How to Use earth-shattering in a Sentence

earth-shattering

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  • But that earth-shattering news was held in confidence until the next day.
    Brian Bennett, TIME, 22 July 2024
  • When all is said and done, don’t expect to have learned anything earth-shattering from Freeze this week.
    Ainslie Lee | Alee@al.com, al, 17 July 2023
  • Earlier this week, the Warriors shot an earth-shattering 63.4% from behind the arc to stun the Lakers.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Within the world of the characters and the behind-the-scenes gossip of the series, though, that one warm, friendly phone call was just short of earth-shattering.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
  • For instance, the news that season eight’s Paige and Adam didn’t last wasn’t exactly earth-shattering.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 29 Aug. 2023
  • While the iPhone's camera had become the subject of praise with the many and consistent updates, those looking for earth-shattering changes did not find them with this model.
    USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Typically, the bottles of whiskey (or whisky, most of the time) that sell for millions at auction are single malt scotch, and the most recent earth-shattering sale was a bottle of The Macallan 1926.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2024
  • No one is credible enough to deliver such earth-shattering news.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Family members may die, friendships may change, careers are in flux and romances can feel earth-shattering.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Gravity-defying spikes in the share price have been followed by earth-shattering crashes.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
  • In flashbacks, Pidgeon was tasked with depicting Clare’s rich relationship with her mother and her response to the earth-shattering news that the latter wouldn’t live much longer.
    Matt Jacobs, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023
  • The tentative agreement with the U.S. investors is far less likely to draw fire from clubhouses and Congress than the earth-shattering decision to combine forces with the Saudis.
    Lauren Hirsch, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Though the symptoms may be mild, the ramifications for your child-care situation will be earth-shattering.
    Claire Friedman, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The two huge subwoofers deliver earth-shattering bass, while the two side speakers and rear speakers provide more lifelike reproduction than soundbars that bounce sound off the walls for side and rear noises.
    Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Taken on their own, today’s gaming announcements from Microsoft might not seem all that earth-shattering.
    Andrew Webster, The Verge, 15 Feb. 2024
  • So far, the papers have proved less than earth-shattering, with plenty of details and names already common knowledge after years of interwoven legal battles.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Are observations about women loving shoes and homely men with money earth-shattering?
    Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
  • An alien message would be an earth-shattering revelation, and whoever controls access to the message, SETI argues, controls one of the world’s most important collections of megabytes.
    Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 4 July 2023
  • Advertisement The report, prepared by the law firm Paul Hastings, doesn’t offer earth-shattering revelations about the corruption scandal.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2024
  • McCarthy, unlike his predecessors, has no earth-shattering plans.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 3 June 2023
  • However, the elder Waystar Royco executives discover an earth-shattering piece of paper that could change everything: an undated addendum of some kind to Logan’s will, which may or may not hold up under scrutiny.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Cecilia Payne's earth-shattering discovery utterly undermined the status quo.
    Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
  • In the first movie, 11-year-old Riley faced a series of challenges that were earth-shattering for her, but fairly mundane for the audience: A big move, a disappointing tryout, and a fight with her parents.
    Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2024

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