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.

  • I'm 6'3" and 195 lbs. and it took every ounce of strength I had to stop from smashing into oncoming traffic in the tunnel.

  • 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.

  • Late the following year an immense hurricane sent a tidal wave over Hog Island (today Paradise Island), smashing Nassau’s flimsy buildings and ruining crops.

  • All the majors' fronts except the LAT 's report Day 2 of the Microsoft trial, at which the company's lawyer made his opening statement, comparing the government to 19th century Luddites going around smashing machines with sledgehammers.


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