File blades are very brittle and can shatter on impact.

Unfortunately, ceramic blades can shatter if dropped on a hard surface.

But it is broken now, the blade shattered, and its magic failed.

And even, if by some chance, she got close enough to him, she knew her blade would shatter against the armor.

The blades shattered under the impact, and the pieces fell at his feet.

The blade shattered the three bits into flying shards of hot metal.

The blade went careening past me and shattered the mirror behind me.

He thrust straight ahead and his blade shattered the breastplate of a warrior.

A flawed blade will shatter and be only dust upon the second strike against ordinary stone.

The blade did not shatter, but cut through the engulfing stone as though it were liquid.