Example sentences for: crushing

How can you use “crushing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This chilling story of a mother's crushing love for a son will haunt me long after I've forgotten the details of the handover ceremony.

  • Noun . A crushing (humiliating) defeat, a drubbing, a fleecing, a loss, usually viewed from the receiving end: We took a right regular fxxxing at Tobruk.

  • But Chekhov, out of a childhood that one of his brothers called "crushing anguish," ranged the full field of society, and always with a delicacy that still makes the world gasp.

  • That description is more bitter than anything in the film, but it does suggest how Farrelly kept life among the urban unwashed from crushing his soul: He cultivated a caustic sense of humor.

  • That ending satisfies no one, but you can appreciate the filmmakers' lack of options: Kundera resolves the conflict by hurtling his lovers' pickup down an incline and crushing their bodies to a pulp.


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