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How to use smash in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Smash means the sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together. Example: “I could hear the screech of the brakes, then the horrible smash of cars colliding.”

Examples of smash by meaning

nounThe sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.

  • I could hear the screech of the brakes, then the horrible smash of cars colliding.
  • The display cabinet hit the floor with a smash.

nounA traffic collision.

  • The driver and two passengers were badly injured in the smash.
  • The footage of this scene has been re-used in several later films where a good, convincing train smash was required, notably in "Seven Sinners" (1937).1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 90

nounSomething very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).

  • This new show is sure to be a smash.
  • The dress is a smash.2007 June 26, Jackie Collins, Drop Dead Beautiful, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 440
  • All together, this look is a smash in our books.2019 May 1, Ginaluca Russo, “Taylor Swift Stuns In a Periwinkle Ruffle Mini Dress on the Billboard Music Awards Red Carpet”, in Teen Vogue

nounA very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.

  • A smash may not be as pretty as a good half volley, but it can still win points.
  • A Nadal forehand into the net gave Djokovic the set and the Spaniard appeared rattled, firing a smash over the baseline in a rare moment of promise at 30-30 at the start of the third.2011 July 3, Piers Newbury, “Wimbledon 2011: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal in final”, in BBC Sport

nounAirspeed; dynamic pressure.

  • Then, for Horner's red team, it became just a matter of gaining sufficient smash (airspeed) to convert on them and film them with gun cameras.2008, Tom Clancy, Chuck Horner, Every Man A Tiger

verbTo break (something brittle) violently.

  • The demolition team smashed the buildings to rubble.
  • The flying rock smashed the window to pieces.
  • We also found that the only emergency egress from the tram was by smashing the front or rear windscreens, and that emergency lighting had failed when the tram overturned.2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, in RAIL, number 947, page 33

verbTo be destroyed by being smashed.

  • The crockery smashed as it hit the floor.

verbTo hit extremely hard.

  • He smashed his head against the table.
  • Bonds smashed the ball 467 feet, the second longest home run in the history of the park.

More sentences with smash

  • The cookies, soft and gooey, proved a smash hit at the party.From the entry gooey
  • A strong desire to smash up everything in the room kept flickering in his head.From the entry flicker
  • The cookies, though soft and gooey, proved a smash hit at the party.From the entry smash hit
  • I'm not looking for a long-term relationship: I'm okay with an occasional smash and dash.From the entry smash and dash
  • Jones smashes a grounder between third and short.From the entry short
  • Jones smashes a worm burner to mid on.From the entry worm burner
  • Jones smashes a worm burner between third and short.From the entry worm burner
  • In his zany prop comedy Gallagher would sometimes smash watermelons and splatter the front rows of the audience.From the entry prop comedy
  • If they don't shout "wheyyy" when you smash a glass, did it even smash?2020 February 10, Claire Galloway, “15 things only people who have worked in an Edinburgh pub will understand”, in Edinburgh Live. From the entry whey
  • In this paper we discuss about the semiprimitivity and the semiprimality of partial smash products.2015, Rafael Cavalheiro, Alveri Sant'Ana, “On the semiprimitivity and the semiprimality problems for partial smash products”, in arXiv. From the entry semiprimality
  • I think he's trying to smash the land speed record, bless him.2014, Sally Wainwright, 1:49 from the start, in Happy Valley, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Kirsten McAskill (Sophie Rundle). From the entry tranny
  • All of my attempted heartfelt, nod-worthy and Amen-pulling sentences get interrupted with keyboard smashes.2012 October, Virginia Montanez, “Oh the Humanity!”, in Pittsburgh Magazine. From the entry keyboard smash
  • Smash the emergency glass, press the big red button and just STOP.2011 August 19, Emma Kennedy, “Relax - a gap year's supposed to be fun”, in The Guardian. From the entry yellow brick road
  • She wanted to shove a sporf through his eyeball and smash her Victorian slotted across his cheekbone.2011, Daniel Staniforth, Diddle, page 79. From the entry sporf
  • Schlachthofbronx – no, that wasn’t a keyboard smash of excitement at seeing M.I.A.2010 November 15, Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura, “Gigs this week 15.11.10”, in Leeds Student. From the entry keyboard smash
  • The cars raced around the track looking to smash into another car and disable it.2010, Larry Upton, Jonathan Jeffrey, Bowling Green Stock Car Racing. From the entry bashfest
  • Smash Bros. gives fans the kind of matchups that they can normally only dream about.2007 December, Chris Slate, “Get Ready to Smash”, in Nintendo Power, volume 222, page 47. From the entry vs.
  • Like the thagomizer of the stegosaur, the ankylosaurid tail club was probably used to smash into attackers.2001, Thomas R. Holtz with Terry Riley, The Little Giant Book of Dinosaurs, page 54. From the entry thagomizer
  • If some idiot smashes up my 99 C5 vert, i will go ballistic!2001 October 28, PawlRevere2, “C5 oil change”, in alt.autos.corvette (Usenet), retrieved 22 Oct 2022. From the entry azzhoe
  • Garner will be on by then, I'll smash him all over the park.'1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 177. From the entry drop
  • To bake a mind-altering cake nowadays, you’ve got to smash a few sugarcubes.1991, “Sonic Boom”, in Ira A. Robbins, editor, The Trouser Press Record Guide, 4th edition, New York, N.Y.: Collier Books, →ISBN, page…. From the entry sugarcube
  • 'We call that the bladebreaker because it is hard enough to smash a machete.1977, Peggie Benton, Fight for the Drylands: Struggle and Achievement in Brazil, page 79. From the entry bladebreaker
  • Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.1973, Old Testament (New International Version), Exodus 34:13. From the entry asherah
  • Where nary a moth will ever come to smash its little dust on a Bonniface window pane.1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 286. From the entry nary

Meaning of smash

  1. noun The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
  2. noun A traffic collision.
  3. noun Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).

Full definition of smash

Questions about smash in a sentence

How do you use smash in a sentence?
Smash is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I could hear the screech of the brakes, then the horrible smash of cars colliding.”
What is a short sentence with smash?
“The dress is a smash.”
What does smash mean?
Smash means the sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.

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