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How to use smashing in a sentence

34 example sentences · adjective, noun

Smashing means serving to smash (something). Example: “The boxer delivered a smashing blow to his opponent's head.”

Examples of smashing by meaning

adjectiveServing to smash (something).

  • The boxer delivered a smashing blow to his opponent's head.

adjectiveWonderful, very good or impressive.

  • We had a smashing time at the zoo.
  • Yes I would, because you are smashing!2010, Toby Whithouse, “The Vampires of Venice”, in Doctor Who, season 5, episode 6, spoken by Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill)

nounThe breaking or destruction of (something brittle) in a violent manner.

  • Some Greek dance is traditionally accompanied by the smashing of crockery.
  • Nor did he connect the smashing of a bottle with the generous curve of his transit.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 117
  • As soon as this danger was appreciated there followed a nervous smashing and chopping of triffids everywhere, until it occurred to someone that all that was necessary to make them harmless was the removal of the actual stinging weapon.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 43

More sentences with smashing

  • Hammers are for knocking nails in, not for smashing my windows!From the entry for
  • The new riding habits of the team looked smashing!From the entry habit
  • And one speedrunner in particular has been smashing records left, right, and center.2024 January 27, Eliana Bollati, “Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunner smashes two world records in just two days”, in Dexerto. From the entry speedrunner
  • Even as Omicron is smashing records in his state, Youngkin is ending the statewide school mask mandate.2022 January 17, Joy Reid, The ReidOut, spoken by Joy Reid, via MSNBC. From the entry covidy
  • They smashed into a copse of trees, smashing the trunks aside.2019, Jason M. Hardy, Phaedra M. Weldon, Herbert A. Beas II, BattleTech: Weapons Free: BattleCorps Anthology, Volume 3. From the entry ripple
  • We have various events or processes, therefore: cuttings, kickings, humiliatings, panickings, puncturings, smashings, blowings, and swellings.2013, Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum, Causation: A Very Short Introduction, page 76. From the entry humiliating
  • Arsenal were shining bright in a match that had begun with hailstones smashing down in the stadium.2011 February 12, Ian Hughes, “Arsenal 2 - 0 Wolverhampton”, in BBC. From the entry smash down
  • On dirt roads, they trail a blinding cloud of bulldust and window smashing, fist-size stones.2007, Dick Eussen, Australia's Savannah Way: Cairns to Broome, page 23. From the entry bulldust
  • We had one French-esque dessert, one fusion confection and one pure Thai sweet; they were all smashing.2001 October 14, Andrea Clurfeld, “Origin: Somerville’s Thai-French experience”, in Asbury Park Press, Asbury Park, N.J., page E9. From the entry French-esque
  • Gehrig made Dean eat crow in the third inning by smashing a home run.1937 July 19, “Baseball Races”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2008. From the entry eat crow
  • Where melancholic men abandon effort, men of the choleric type take to kicking and smashing.1918 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Oswald Takes Control”, in Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education, London; New York, N.Y.…. From the entry choleric
  • They were not out for smashing windows or helmetting policemen, or blowing up things sky-high.1913 August 28, “English Non-Militant Suffragists in Parade”, in The Union Signal, volume XXXIX, number 35, Evanston, Ill., page 12. From the entry helmet
  • New video released by ISIS shows militants smashing what they say are antiquities at a museum in Mosul, Iraq.2015 February 26, Ben Wedeman, Dana Ford, “Video shows ISIS militants destroying antiquities in Iraq”, in CNN, archived from the original…. From the entry antiquity
  • Smashing a glass and the whole bar choruses "WHEYYYY".2014 February 18, Catriona Harvey-Jenner, “25 things only bar staff will understand”, in Cosmopolitan UK. From the entry whey
  • A stack smashing attack fills up the stack area and modifies the return address to an attacker's desired location.2008 December 17, Asoke K. Talukder, Manish Chaitanya, Architecting Secure Software Systems, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 130. From the entry stack smashing
  • His guns hosed down the vessel's decks, sweeping them clear of sailors, blowing holes in the bulkheads, and smashing gun positions.2003, John R. Bruning, Jungle ace, Brassey's, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry hose
  • The Confederacy had scored a smashing victory at Fredericksburg and the Yankee dead and wounded were counted in the thousands.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published June 1944, →OCLC, part II, page 252. From the entry confederacy
  • By smashing together components of hip-hop, EDM, metal and dubstep, phonk is placed as one of the most prominent new genres of music.2024 April 15, Andy Ward, Briony Luttrell, Lachlan Goold, “How a global crisis, drift racing and Memphis hip-hop gave us phonk – the music…. From the entry phonk
  • A pure hooligan, smashing stuff up.2014, Alistair Beaton, Rob Drummond, Morna Pearson, Contemporary Scottish Plays. From the entry rocket
  • The English knights and men-at-arms carried broadswords, maces for smashing skulls and the murderous pole-axe, combining a spear with an axehead about five feet long.2013, Colin Brown, “1415 Azincourt”, in Glory and B*llocks: The Truth Behind Ten Defining Events in British History, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry broadsword
  • By smashing a symbol of the social fantasy with spectacular violence, one is able temporarily to unwrite it – exposing the traumatic 'real' within.2013, Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Politics of Violence, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry unwrite
  • Physicists are attempting to make QGP by smashing large atomic nuclei into one another at such high energies that the protons and neutrons squeeze together.2004, Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 126. From the entry QGP
  • In Moscow, where parties are judged by the quantity and quality of Russian officials who attend, the U.S. party was a smashing success.1960 April 18, “Halfway Coexistence”, in Time. From the entry blustering
  • 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. From the entry fail
  • Shw saw the door with the pushbar and charged it, hands out, smashing the door open so hard that it hit off something outside and rebounded.2019 April 18, Mason Cross, What She Saw Last Night, Orion, page 150. From the entry pushbar
  • One by one, the people in this small French town are mutating into rhinoceroses and congregating in herds in the street, smashing and destroying everything they find.2017 August 10, David Pollock, “Edinburgh Festival, Rhinoceros, Royal Lyceum Theatre, review: 'Far smarter than a one-note topical…. From the entry dishevelledness
  • Boosted by their reward, Wolves continued to push forward and Jamie O'Hara came within a whisker of doubling the lead, smashing a 25-yard effort on to the bar.2011 May 14, Peter Scrivener, “Sunderland 1 - 3 Wolverhampton”, in BBC Sport. From the entry whisker
  • Here in our smashing madcap twenty century country all is slipslop and upshot, coming out with moons and planets, down with awful swats at the poors and the darkened.1994, T Merton, R Lax, A Catch of Anti-letters. From the entry slipslop

Meaning of smashing

  1. adjective Serving to smash (something).
  2. adjective Wonderful, very good or impressive.
  3. noun The breaking or destruction of (something brittle) in a violent manner.

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Questions about smashing in a sentence

How do you use smashing in a sentence?
Smashing is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The boxer delivered a smashing blow to his opponent's head.”
What is a short sentence with smashing?
“A pure hooligan, smashing stuff up.”
What does smashing mean?
Smashing means serving to smash (something).

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