The bow snapped, the arrow shattered, and the young man was blasted off his feet to land in an unconscious heap some distance away.

A normal arrow would shatter if it was fired from one.

The arrow shattered on a rock beside the cave mouth.

Quite often the arrows also shattered in midair as they failed to withstand the enormous pressure.

An arrow buzzed into the light and shattered on Barak's mail shirt.

He should have looked up instead, for he never knew what hit him as Catti-brie's next arrow shattered his backbone.

An arrow shattered on the boulder he'd just left, followed by the snarl of a nerve disrupter.

He had approached it and was circling to find the hatchway when an arrow from above shattered against the metal.

An arrow shattered on the stairway wall.

The arrow leapt from the bow, struck the beam and shattered.