Example sentences for: smashing

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

  • In the late Sixties you get the concept album, which is what the Smashing Pumpkin's "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" [a two-CD set] is.

  • The new technology, according to this view, is a tool of cheap voyeurism, capable of smashing public decency with unprecedented speed and efficiency.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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