How to Use earth-shattering in a Sentence

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• Ten catches for 166 yards and one TD hasn’t been earth-shattering.
  — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 4 Oct. 2024
• When all is said and done, don’t expect to have learned anything earth-shattering from Freeze this week.
  — Ainslie Lee | [e-mail], 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
• But that earth-shattering news was held in confidence until the next day.
  — Brian Bennett, TIME, 22 July 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
• 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
• For most of the spring, this presidential campaign lacked the high-wattage, earth-shattering storylines that energize the reporters who chronicle them.
  — Jeremy Barr, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
• 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
• Miraculously, my husband has been acting nicer — nothing earth-shattering, but there have been fewer arguments and more pleasantness.
  — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Addicted to opiates and alcohol, his life changes when a young man, Starkey’s Eugene Allerton, arrives on the scene, stirring Craig’s character into earth-shattering infatuation.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has backed an earth-shattering idea: For the first time, traditional Medicare would pay for personal assistance at home and related long-term care.
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
• When a family receives the earth-shattering news that their child has an intellectual or developmental disability, the whirlwind of emotions can feel devastating.
  — Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024
• Cecilia Payne's earth-shattering discovery utterly undermined the status quo.
  — Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024