How to Use earth-shattering in a Sentence

earth-shattering

adjective
  • None of the proofs is earth-shattering.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2026
  • As secret tips from spies go, this one was not earth-shattering.
    — Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • That was one of the most earth-shattering things that could have happened.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The changes are earth-shattering—but we cannot be caught on the back foot and expect to survive.
    — Juan Font, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
  • But that earth-shattering news was held in confidence until the next day.
    — Brian Bennett, TIME, 22 July 2024
  • There weren’t any earth-shattering results but a possible sign of what’s to come.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 5 Apr. 2025
  • When all is said and done, don’t expect to have learned anything earth-shattering from Freeze this week.
    — Ainslie Lee | [email protected], al, 17 July 2023
  • No one is credible enough to deliver such earth-shattering news.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The early inactives lists are out, and there’s nothing earth-shattering.
    — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Ten catches for 166 yards and one TD hasn’t been earth-shattering.
    — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Family members may die, friendships may change, careers are in flux and romances can feel earth-shattering.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 6 Feb. 2024
  • There is, for example, no earth-shattering surprise lurking at the finish line of his new film, Trap.
    — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Gravity-defying spikes in the share price have been followed by earth-shattering crashes.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Falling below break-even in xG in a short series against a contender like the Avalanche isn’t earth-shattering.
    — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • 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
  • Even compared to similar players, his performance was far from earth-shattering.
    — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Then, as the calendar flipped into the 2010s, an earth-shattering tech advance emerged.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 21 Nov. 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
  • Are observations about women loving shoes and homely men with money earth-shattering?
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Taken on their own, today’s gaming announcements from Microsoft might not seem all that earth-shattering.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Of all the viral moments to emerge from Sunday night's Grammys, perhaps the most earth-shattering one took place off-camera.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
  • In the opening sequence of the doc, clips of the recent devastation in Gaza are used to reveal an earth-shattering catastrophe.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 27 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For Mendoza’s family, the discovery was earth-shattering.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
  • What opened as a heart-to-heart between friends — one of whom described having an affair with a married woman — would eventually culminate in an earth-shattering reveal.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
  • Getty Images On my first morning in Matera, I was awoken by an earth-shattering chorus of fireworks.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2025
  • 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

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