How To Use Smashing In A Sentence

He spent three days in jail after smashing up an apartment, and has done time in a drug rehabilitation centre.
We overbalanced and tumbled towards the window, smashing it and falling through.
And then, his face pink with the pleasure of cocaine and meperidine, he swung the glass hard into her left lens implant, smashing vision into blood and light. Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth
At this point the music changes to a jolly bouncy tune, sung absolutely smashingly by Oliver Reed.
But as the years go by, we realize what a smashing wonderful star she was.

Zen 8 was out of salmon skin, but we hit the jackpot at Sushi Kawa - the salmon was smashingly crispy, the rolls expertly composed.
I was startled when Cassie described almost smashing a vase over Brian's head because he was irritating her, but she successfully checked her violent reaction.
Reaction to his role in MIT was excellent, he says, with ‘some lovely reviews and smashing comments’.
This Duncan rookie has been smashing the ball at a rate of one round-tripper every 4.6 at-bats. Ladies and Gentlemen, the next Mickey Mantle
Lads were taking turns to give him a right going over, smashing him in the face with weapons and stamping on him.
I am always stubbing my toe, smashing my arms against walls, tripping over, scratching myself.
He charged the man on the left, leading with his right fist and smashing it into the man's jaw dropping him to the floor.
As Bluto Blutarsky in "Animal House, '' John made cinema history by smashing a guitar, imitating a" zit "in the cafeteria and inspiring his fraternity brothers with the rallying cry:" Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Our Guide to Famous Brothers
The cars jerked and yawed so much that we were constantly bumping our heads or smashing our elbows.
She said her husband, a rail clerk, went outside to confront the louts but they just taunted him and started smashing his car.
Instead, they all toppled over the side of the counter, smashing into billions of pieces onto the floor.
The sawing heartbeat of a panther morphs into a subway train sledge-hammering, smashing the ground, until it screeches to a morse code halt. 2008 December 20 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
Smashing through the rusty outer hull of the Vanguard was easy, though I scraped my hand and arm along the way.
Letting famous film directors direct operas has resulted in both smashing successes and dismal failures.
On the pitch, at least, they have stopped haemorrhaging goals and started smashing some in.
This time, though we were continually half-buried, there was no trough in which to be swept, and we drifted squarely down upon the upturned boat, badly smashing it as it was heaved inboard. Chapter 17
The pilot was saved by his ejector seat ... and by smashing through a greenhouse full of tomato plants.
But the rock-star whose stage antics used to include smashing guitars is older and wiser now.
The spritsailyard rattled, and broke off sharp'at the point where it crossed the bowsprit; and a heavy smashing thump against our bows told, in fearful language, that we had run her down. Tom Cringle's Log
They respond by kicking him and smashing him repeatedly from behind with an iron pipe until he is on the restraining conveyor belt that carries him to the stunner.
A small crossbow bolt had been sent smashing into the back of his skull.
The picture's allusions to great moments in cinema - a horse suspended in its harness, from Vertigo shot of a woman plummeting from a bell-tower; the Michael Caine at the height of what I call his blazer years, when he played a series of men caught up in international intrigue while looking smashing in navy sports coats. GreenCine Daily
Calissa fell to the floor, her glass of wine smashing into a hundred pieces.
Before I realise it the glass has left my hand and reaches the middle of the room, smashing to pieces on the floor.
Those responsible went on an orgy of destruction smashing windows and electrical equipment.
Much of the looting was selective thievery of a quite small number of valuable pieces, with smashing and burning of furniture and furnishings carried out to simulate looter-like behaviour.
Ruddy kingfishers in the Philippines remove land snails from their shells by smashing them against stones on the forest floor.
At this point the music changes to a jolly bouncy tune, sung absolutely smashingly by Oliver Reed.
He gossips about the dipsomania in town whilst tracking down and smashing stills.
As they camped in the fields in sight of the city walls the Mongols surprised them by smashing the dams and dikes nearby and flooding the encampment.
There's a smashing view from her office.
Thieves had attempted to break through the front door of building before smashing a stained glass window.
So the Pyrenees, with her cargo of fire, was hove to, bitting the teeth of the gale and fighting and smashing the pounding seas. THE SEED OF McCOY
Who can erase the mental images of those planes smashing into the twin towers?
Instead of Smashing Pumpkins, the music this time was some sort of gospel-like orchestral played over some of the best visuals from the film, including Nite Owl and Silk Spectre kissing while a nuke explodes behind them, extended shots of Rorschach and the ink changing in his mask, and the scene where the original Minutemen are getting their photo taken. Comic-Con 08: This Year's Best Panels and Footage « FirstShowing.net
Her arm stopped her head from smashing into the hard pavement.
I had a smashing time in Edinburgh last night, using my beard to its full comic potential in a somewhat improvised opening to my act.
It struck both Mr Chan's and Miss Holden's cars before smashing through the crash barrier, plunging 60 ft to the bank of the Weaver Navigation canal below.
The blast caused a shock wave across the town, smashing windows and shaking houses.
A smashing final 25 minutes gave the 9,000 attendance plenty to enthuse about at sun-drenched Hyde Park on Sunday.
The gunman's accomplice carried on with the raid, smashing a glass security shield and taking cash.
How about smashing a cross-court backhand winner in the final set of a championship tennis match?
Rioters ran through the city centre smashing windows and looting shops.
If I take the time to single out all the smashing desserts (though a piece of the rhubarb napoleon should be taken every day, like vitamins), there will be no room left to let you in on one more secret.
Thank you everyone, marvellous entertainment and smashing, friendly people, lots of them!
We also found a smashing exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (which appears, peculiarly, not to have a working website), mostly consisting of temporary rooms and buildings buried in sand.
O'Neill bagged the first of his five goals when smashing the ball to the back of the Roanmore net with a fine effort after receiving a pass from Michael King and this goal came after nine minutes.
Roast pork, complete with tooth-smashing crackling, and a hearty side helping of bitter greens - puha, if you can find some in your suburban paradise, but a good mesclun and radicchio salad will do.
The audio was even more terrifying than the imagery - earsplitting wind, objects getting smashing, wailing children and a woman praying repeatedly. Tornadoes Hit Midwest: Missouri Tornado Kills At Least 116 (VIDEO)
Nick was sent sailing into the grain thresher, smashing against the sides of the tower as Seven quickly darted at him.
Barry takes out his frustration by breaking and smashing things or randomly bursting into tears.
They've had a rough go of it over the record-smashing Stuyvesant Town-Cooper Village acquisition, but "Speyer" arguably remains the marquee surname in New York commercial real estate, with 15 million top-shelf square feet in midtown alone, including Rockefeller Center and the land lease on the Chrysler Building. Home | The New York Observer
Regarding the technical process, treating amorphous slags consist in smashing and washing them in order to pick off argentiferous lead bullets.
After smashing the £600,000 target a year ahead of schedule, the appeal launched its second phase to reach £1m.
TWO sisters suffering from the same genetic illness could be on the road to a cure this year, thanks to fundraisers who are within a whisker of smashing a £160,000 target.
In celebrating Abraham's smashing of Nimrod's idols, damning the fallen Babel rebuilt as Sodom, cursing the Sidonian, Byblian and Tyrean Quarters, the Temples of Judaism in New Jerusalem took on some of the features of the very homodoxy it was fighting. Archive 2007-04-01
But within the Labour tribe, it is akin to smashing a sacred tablet of stone.
He started in the red and ran accordingly, smashing the course record despite carrying 62 kg.
Everything comes together smashingly, in an extended dénouement that… reasserts the power of stories and songs to represent, sustain and complete us.
Standing at the center of a circle, his feet planted wije, with massive swings of his oaklike arms he twirled his heavy iron ball about his head, lowering it a few feet whenever a German came into range and smashing the man apart. Poland
Even if you're not necessarily a top-notch gifter, this holiday you can make even the smallest packages look smashing while also honoring Mother Nature. Stacie Krajchir: It's a Wrap: 5 Green Gift Wrapping Ideas
He could just imagine the Woman hitting him, smashing at his face in the dark with the butt of her gun.
Every year police are called out to reports of children smashing windows, climbing on roofs or congregating on school sites.
The lightning strike blew a crater in Margaret's front yard, cracking brickwork, smashing windows, melting guttering and water pipes and blowing up her hot water system.
They tore metal window bars off the front of Parnella House and were smashing the bus shelter with them.
She shot down the road backwards before smashing into the wall of a front garden five doors down the street.
Mainstream media reports have tended to emphasise the violence of protesters, highlighting images of masked men smashing windows, throwing rocks and torching cars.
The lack of third-party multitasking itself isn't a pain, per se, but the way the phone quickly "dehydrates" third-party apps like Twitter or games once the lock screen engages is seriously detrimental to the overall smoothness of the experience, like smashing into a road bump every mile or so while cruising in Ferrari down the autobahn. Gizmodo
Rain is slashing slantwise, mixing with spray from waves smashing into jetty walls.
Much of this is to do with the transition from conflictual policing to consensual policing over the past two decades and the absence of any real threat or challenge since the smashing of working class opposition at the end of the Eighties. Alan Miller: UK Riots
Obviously we couldn't see what the suspect's hands were doing behind his back, but is there a legitimate case, a legitimate justification there for smashing him in the face?
The man broke into the mansion by smashing a downstairs window, but the burglar alarm apparently failed.
Then all of a sudden there was a sound like smashing crockery, and the planes come diving out of the clouds.
In a split second, the vehicle moved to the side of the road before hitting the kerb and going off the carriageway, smashing through a fence and down an embankment.
All I remember was a red car smashing in to me, then a sharp pain in my hips.
It appears that a thief, described as a drunk male wearing a combat jacket, used a crowbar to prise open the security shutter before smashing the window.
It pinwheeled into the wall, smashing Ronnie's mirror.
While others believe the solution lies in sartorial blackness and breaking glass: one small group clad head-to toe in black that was seen hurling street cobbles and smashing shop windows. If you are going to Copenhagen, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair « Anglican Samizdat
He's a badass who enjoys smashing things just for the thrill of it.
At 6.15 am he staggered bound and gagged into the reception of the hotel, smashing the fire alarm as he entered, which prompted the evacuation of the hotel guests.
There was a flicker of white light, and Angel was watching himself on a rooftop, with a rock in his hand, smashing the Ring of Amarra.
Smashing their way in, officers were met with a sickening stench and dead bluebottles covering the stairs.
The jet of cold water took Stolypin full in the chest, smashing him back against the concrete wall. Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners
The damage has involved the smashing of glass flower holders and the scattering of flowers and other objects which had been placed on graves.
You can also watch the entertainment, with plate smashing, fire dancing and traditional dancing, too.
This means that half way round you can get a smashing cuppa tea and a feast.
As a director, Rohmer became a leading force in France's convention-smashing New Wave cinema, alongside directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, his colleagues at the Cahiers.
Well I too woke up and outside there was this shining sun literally smashing itself against the window like a crazed yet determined yellow bird butit just couldn't break through the little rows of shuttered blinds like it wanted to. Allergic Reactions #1: the Sun
In most aircraft safety guff, the instructions for smashing into the earth are pretty clear: simply sit in the brace position beaming euphorically, never forgetting that you might also need to grip a euphoric child or infant.
Letting famous film directors direct operas has resulted in both smashing successes and dismal failures.
You get a load of yuppie petrolheads in fast cars [who] career across a series of foreign countries, dodging indigenous police forces and smashing speed limits.
Quoting from HG Wells' science fiction classic The War of the Worlds, the MP said high-tech windfarms were ‘monstrous tripods, striding over young pine trees, and smashing them aside’.
The youths entered the house by smashing a downstairs window.
The demonstrators rampaged through the town, smashing windows and setting fire to cars.
He uses the suffragettes as ‘effective extra-parliamentary protest’ but fails to mention that not until the militants began a campaign of fire-raising and window-smashing were they taken seriously.
“It really is smashing, Dryden,” said Teddy, bandying about his new mot du jour. Exit the Actress
It would also be legal to use force to enter their house/apartment/hotel room and set about smashing their stereo to smithereens with a hurley.
Smashing in a 'word stringer alonger' kind of way. Rainandfire Diary Entry
The gable end of a newly-built block of flats came tumbling down in Topping Street, off Walmersley Road, Bury, and landed on a Mercedes car, smashing its windows.
Moseley had earlier set the clubhouse target after smashing the course record by two shots with a flawless 63.
This smashing red will not hang around for long either, so if you fancy a gamey, rustic, plummy wine with a seductive, spicy, perfumed finish, move fast.
That, and the after party at the confab had to be smashing.
Rathnew full back Mark Coffey had a smashing first half, ably fronted all through by Stephen Byrne.
The intruders forced their way into the house through the back door in the early hours of Tuesday morning, daubing graffiti on walls, smashing windows and throwing paint over the furniture.
We fended them off but they started smashing bottles as they left.
He was convicted of killing an Israeli in front of his four-year-old daughter in 1979 and then smashing her head with a rifle butt.
Turns out he was smashing "roaches," or so he thought. Two jetty stories
All indications suggest it will be a smashing success.
Cross 13 miles of perilous prehistoric terrain , smashing the classic foes you've come to love and hate with Bonk 's indestructible cranium .
Even when he's out smashing bottles, he's both enjoying the badness of it all and making a responsible point about global politics.
The Staff lightninged into its chest, smashing armor and bone. The Swordbearer
Reports are that the bulk of sales are to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, currently smashing three phones a week in uncontrolled rages. News in Brief - 30 January 2009
Smashing padlocks and deadbolts, the men checked for booby traps as they felt their way by flashlight from room to room.
But, after cutting through a wire fence and then smashing a window the thieves stole a box containing the pictures, two generators and a disabled ramp.
But the rock-star whose stage antics used to include smashing guitars is older and wiser now.
He cried out, suddenly aware he was in total darkness, the smashing of stone joining the cry.
Everything comes together smashingly, in an extended dénouement that… reasserts the power of stories and songs to represent, sustain and complete us.
The one time I used it, thankfully, was for my high school yearbook (where it made a smashingly unapt contribution to the book's Art Nouveau theme.)
Smashing through hordes of enemies with a fuckoff big sword, picking up shields, dead bodies, even swords and tables and throwing them in slow mo, aiming them at enemies heads is GREAT fun! EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Heavenly Sword Review: 7.0 at IGN
This results in a smashing encounter with a stranded SUV, its tires blown out by a barbed wire trap.
A van driver who was travelling behind the car made a dramatic rescue bid, smashing the Rover's windows, dragging the flaming man out on to the road and squirting him with water from a pump.
There were 35 people on the tour and trouble flared when some of the party got drunk and started smashing doors and a bed.
But over the Easter period his team have come up with two smashing victories which will have gone a long way to silencing the critics.
The food was great, he reasoned, the decor was smashing and the reviews were adulatory.
But the rock-star whose stage antics used to include smashing guitars is older and wiser now.
Then the LCC will begin its long-term project of smashing cheeses together at close to the speed of light in under to understand more about the make up of fundamental cheese particles such as curds and whey as described in quantum cheese theory. Archive 2009-06-01
The evening closed with an innovation, the smashing of a haggis piñata, which thankfully contained candy rather than ground lamb's meat.
Most of the ATVs I encounter are seen driving in washes, smashing up cattle tanks, and cutting new roads where none existed before through desertscrub. ATVs ... What do YOU think?
She took revenge on her ex-boyfriend by smashing up his home.
The thorough exposure and smashing of this counter- revolutionary clique in the great proletarian cultural revolution is an immense new victory for Mao Tse - tung's thought.
Rathnew full back Mark Coffey had a smashing first half, ably fronted all through by Stephen Byrne.
Hooligans behave like thugs smashing up anyone and everything in their paths.
When ColdFusion was generating the ID for the input, it was happily smashing the mantissa of the points together. O'Reilly News and Commentary
No wonder a Syrian general referred to annihilating an enemy as “smashing his belly”! The Trojan War
If a friend is short on bill paying money just simply sign up for a online advance cash that is smashing, untroublesome, and swiftly today! Think Progress » Congressman: ‘I Fear…We Will Have Many More Muslims In The United States’
Olivia leapt forward with a high snap kick, smashing the orange-clothed vampire's head back with a deadly sounding crunch of bone and the sickening splat of boot against flesh.
They heard a great crashing and smashing of things before it gathered beyond the barricaded door breathing stillness and the chill of death and oblivion through the cracks in the door.
Smashing padlocks and deadbolts, the men checked for booby traps as they felt their way by flashlight from room to room.
They went on the rampage pushing over marble and granite headstones and smashing family's memorials to their loved ones.
By now, even the dimmest of Muggles knows that the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is a smashing success. Butterbeer: How The Harry Potter Beverage Was Made Real
you look simply smashing
This time though the door swung inwards smashing a few who were to slow to get out of the way against the wall.
A gang of youngsters is terrorising bus drivers by throwing stones, bricks and pieces of concrete at buses and smashing windows as they approach the outskirts of Leeds.
The team produced six atoms of the element by smashing together isotopes of calcium and a radioactive element called berkelium in a particle accelerator about 75 miles north of Moscow on the Volga River, according to a paper that has been accepted for publication at the journal NYT > Home Page
This smashing red will not hang around for long either, so if you fancy a gamey, rustic, plummy wine with a seductive, spicy, perfumed finish, move fast.
Unlike a conventional tube, however, the “linac” imbues massive amounts of energy into the electrons, pushing them to dizzying velocities before smashing them against the metal surface. The Emperor of All Maladies
Almost worse, he says, was the insult of troops upending ashtrays, of throwing his clothes on the floor and stepping on them, and of smashing open suitcases they could easily have opened.
He leapt into the air, smashing through the high ceiling and looking for the supportive structures of the construct.
They would be trying to spot and capture the escapee, who was jailed after smashing his way into a woman's home as she lay in bed.
The demon screamed in fury as he flew through the air, before smashing through a tree and finally, sliding to a halt.
Michael Caine at the height of what I call his blazer years, when he played a series of men caught up in international intrigue while looking smashing in navy sports coats. VinceKeenan.com
She then tried to bite a police officer's leg and lashed out at a third victim, smashing his glasses and injuring him.
He took to the kitchen, smashing bowls and plates, turning over trolleys and pushing over tables.
After a nice winter hiatus, Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider is coming back online soon, set to resume smashing protonic beams at one another with the force of 3.5 trillion electron-volts (TeV) per beam, or 7 TeV in total. Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
As well as the smashing of the glass hands vandals have also graffitied areas on and around the sculpture with swastikas.
He ordered all press of sail, and with the winds whistling through the rigging and the little ship straining to the smashing seas, did his best to outspeed disease, sighting the long line of surf-washed Aleutian Islands in September, coasting from headland to headland, keeping well offshore for fear of reefs till the end of the month, when compelled to turn in to the mid-bay of Oonalaska for water. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward
The driver of the vehicle that Eubank reversed into, denting the bumper and smashing a headlight, said: ‘He reversed into me without looking.’
Because the ram was the only ship-smashing weapon available, fleets fought in line abeam so as to present as many rams to the enemy as possible.
Several months later she was arrested for climbing the scaffolding and smashing a window at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square.
There is no effort to resolve the incongruity of the movie's semirealistic images with the ethereal play of animated birds comically smashing into things.
Roast pork, complete with tooth-smashing crackling, and a hearty side helping of bitter greens - puha, if you can find some in your suburban paradise, but a good mesclun and radicchio salad will do.
The mirror shattered instantly, smashing to the ground with a thunderous crash.
Gary's smashing of the 21-year-old record has sent the gaming world into raptures, because many thought 389,770 was a high score that would never be beaten.
The man stepped around a corner, and Ralier barreled after him, smashing into the wall as he turned.
The demonstrators rampaged through the town, smashing windows and setting fire to cars.
In writing about the box office juggernaut -- a film that is smashing records left and right, beating Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings in online advance sales, among other "firsts" -- headline writers are using the language of teen girls. Rachel Simmons: Are the New Moon Headlines Taking a Swipe At Girl Culture & Female-Driven Box Office Success?
Just about everything's destructible, which is a nice touch because you'll be smashing through all sorts of crap, but none of it looks that good. IGN PS3
Cinemas could become much more entrepreneurial ventures, making more money by taking more of the risk of films smashing or bombing.
The difference is that the Spanish Inquisition was willing to torture using methods that leave marks on the body, while the US chose to use methods that do not cut the skin: cold rooms; sleep deprivation through noise and bright lights; forced standing; “stress positions;” smashing people into wooden walls (not into concrete, which breaks bones); confinement in coffin-like boxes; and the water torture. southpaw says: Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition
‘People were literally going around smashing bottles, manifesting their anger,’ she says.
The thieves gained entry to the gunsmiths by breaking into the New China Palace take-away next door and then smashing their way through the adjoining brick wall.
And as he reeled unseeing, smashing his great groping clutches through the air at me, I was in and short-dirked him thrice in belly, thigh, and buttock, than which I could reach no higher up the mighty frame of him. Chapter 17
Holding the phone tight to his right ear, smashing his fleshy earlobe, the way she said "fuckwit," and other combination specialties, over and over, and how much he wanted her as though she were illegal. The New Wife
The first episode of filming began with me falling off a floating dock and smashing my right humerus.
A police car responding to a 999 call hurtled into a railway bridge in the Black Country, smashing an overhead bridge and injuring the driver. Express & Star
They tore metal window bars off the front of Parnella House and were smashing the bus shelter with them.
Our presentation to the president and company went smashingly, and it was an unqualified success.
There'd been a very loud sound of smashing glass two doors down, although not so loud that I actually heard it, so absorbed was I in mindlessly goggling at the box.
I almost expected him to say something about exacting that pain to me, but he merely bowled me over with a charging headbutt, smashing me into the wall.
Police say he is responsible for pushing dog mess through letterboxes, smashing windows, damaging cars, pelting people with eggs and assaulting other youngsters.
The team produced six atoms of the element by smashing together isotopes of calcium and a radioactive element called berkelium in a particle accelerator about 75 miles north of Moscow on the Volga River, according to a paper that has been accepted for publication at the journal Physical Review Letters. NYT > Home Page
An investigation has been launched after three train carriages ran out of control before smashing through buffers and derailing yards from a busy line.
The key to Afghanistan's future thus lies not in forging an unholy alliance after breaking the back of the Taliban, but rather in first smashing asunder devastating assumptions beginning with the misconception that Afghans would ever choose to live under a regime of corrupt Westernized bureaucrats and religiously psychotic warlords who espouse belief systems anathema to thousands of years of Afghan tribal sensibilities. Michael Hughes: Saving Afghanistan Requires Smashing Dangerous Delusions
The music on the album is nothing startling or genre smashing, but could serve as pleasant wallpaper / graffiti music at any frosh week or first-year dorm activity.
At 3.30 am they were wakened by the sound of sledgehammers smashing open the double-locked front door.
A group of 20 teenagers went on a Halloween rampage in Hockley, smashing windows, tearing down fences and hurling abuse at homeowners.
The earlier DNA sample had been taken from a trail of blood left behind when he cut himself smashing the cash office window.
In May vandals went on the rampage trashing cars in a spate of incidents on the estates, including smashing windows, slashing sunroofs, tyres and scratching paintwork.
Youngsters have been blamed for vandalising phone boxes and public benches, smashing windows and setting light to hedges in the town.
However, after getting off to a smashing start, the show sputters.
By smashing the highly-lucrative market, police aim to slash the number of cars taken in burglaries and hijackings throughout the district.
Meaning smashing old patterns so a new paradigm can arise
She grabbed his arm and swung him through the air, smashing him back down into the ground again.
Roy is a true original, a barbarian living in a modern world, and relentlessly smashing everything in his path.
How about smashing a cross-court backhand winner in the final set of a championship tennis match?

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