Example sentences for: smashing

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

  • From what you might call the internationalist anti-WTO perspective, though, there's a real paradox here, since the WTO is simultaneously excoriated for being a kind of supranational government smashing down local regulations and excoriated for not being enough of a supranational government to create global living and working standards.

  • Ground crews for Sabena, the national flag carrier, ran amok during a 1996 strike day at the airport, smashing the terminal's glass walls and doing millions of francs worth of damage, then demanding more money from the very government that was going to have to pay for the repairs.

  • On the set, he is known for his temper, smashing cell phones and lobbing insults at colleagues.

  • Advertisers predict the sponsorship agreement will be a smashing success: Brits scorn Fergie for her adultery, kinky sexual practices, contempt for authority, and general infamy, but Americans love her for precisely the same reasons.

  • And so "Lola takes off, trucking along with a muscular R. Crumb look and distinctive flaming-cranberry hair," and from that point on, the film is full if "smashing bravado" and "sheer cleverness" (Maslin, the New York Times ). The film crackles with little tricks--at times Lola morphs into an animated figure, and her trip starts over three times, each version ending differently.


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