Example sentences for: smashing

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

  • The movie has some smashing special effects a la NBC's Merlin , but it also has its share of bad acting and heavy-handed dialogue.

  • 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.

  • Wielding her Windex bottle like a weapon, smashing Kleenexes into the 9-year-old's mouth to retrieve illicit pieces of chewing gum, Annie is a counterfactual from hell--what American housewives would probably be like if Betty Friedan had never published The Feminine Mystique . Annie's mothering is loving but grim, and she's prone to irrational outbursts the rest of the family has to tiptoe around.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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