Example sentences for: smashing

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

  • The news hook was the July 12 death of Smashing Pumpkins side man Jonathan Melvoin, 34, while shooting scag in a Park Avenue hotel.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.


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