The wrong answer would have shattered him into little pieces.
At some point, the stone was shattered into three pieces.
Everything safe in her life had just shattered into small pieces.
When it hit the water, he was shattered into a hundred pieces.
The other three men looked ready to shatter into small pieces.
It felt like her own heart was shattering into a million pieces.
His head felt as it had been turned to glass and shattered into a thousand pieces.
She took his staff and it shattered into pieces in her grasp.
He could not bear the great shock and his heart shattered into pieces.
Then, as they turned at the landing and started up the second flight, glass shattered into the living room below.