¿Cuál es la diferencia entre shatter y break ?Puedes dar oraciones como ejemplo.

shatter is when something breaks into lots of pieces at once. glass shatters. shatter is also used to talk about emotions:
- my hopes of becoming a doctor were shattered after I failed that test
- I was shattered after my mom died, I could barely function for months

break, as you can tell by my use of it in the definition for shatter, is more general. You can break a pencil in two (in half), you can break an electronic device by getting it wet, which would then mean it doesn't work anymore but is still in 1 whole piece, you can break the heart of someone that loves you, you can break up a fight, break open a can of beer, etc.