English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "versplinter" is om in baie stukke te breek of te breek, dikwels met 'n harde geraas, of om iets heeltemal te vernietig of te verwoes.

Sentence Examples

  1. Then came a crash like the shatter of glass and all the stars fell with me.
  2. Sara hears footsteps behind her, but before she can turn to see who it is, her right leg is kicked out from under her she hears the bones of her ankle shatter as she falls to the floor, crying out in pain, and for just a moment she blacks out.
  3. In fact, not only did I feel colder than a block of ice, I felt like he was chipping away at me with an ice pick, and I might shatter at any moment.
  4. But then a shadow darkened my mind as I remembered the cold water that had encased my legs for days, freezing my bones until I thought they would shatter into a thousand pieces from the smallest movement.
  5. Something inside of her felt as though it were fracturing, and she feared that any additional pressure would cause her to shatter entirely.
  6. She cried about everything, when she was mad, when she was sad, when her muscles became so tense from her inability to do something that she felt like her bones would shatter.
  7. But heaven forbid that, to gratify my own inclination, I should shake or shatter this pillar of letters and vessel of the sciences, and cut down this towering palm of the fair and liberal arts.
  8. They shatter into a million shards that rain down over the bar.
  9. The pilot had hung out his lights, which was very necessary in these seas crowded with vessels bound landward for collisions are not uncommon occurrences, and, at the speed she was going, the least shock would shatter the gallant little craft.
  10. I set out from the Abbey with a desire to do nothing more than shatter your bones.