In 1978, however, the peace of the routine trip out from Sharpness was rudely shattered.

You also know that sooner or later their idyll will be rudely shattered.

I turn now to the four gentlemen whose alibis have been so rudely shattered.

But she could detect no sign of surprise, only a deepening of that confidence which was going to be so rudely shattered soon.

My paradise was rudely shattered by the sound of a well known, and heartily disliked, voice in the hall.

Never had their sleep here been so rudely shattered, and the youngest was no more than seven years old.

But just as the predawn sky began to lighten, all their careful planning was rudely shattered.

This genetic evidence created a rapid increase in knowledge that led to many proposed changes; stability was "rudely shattered".

The silence was rudely shattered by the vulgar sound of a hand slapping bare flesh.

My dreaming was rudely shattered by a savage growl from Raja.