Sentence examples for and smithereens in a from inspiring English sources

(Picture book; ages 5 to 9) Michael, who collects words like "vast" and "smithereens" in a box under his bed (Coverly gives each one a physical identity that in some way reflects its meaning), hears a very inappropriate word on the school bus.

As a result, the white dwarf becomes too massive to support itself, and it shatters into smithereens in a titanic thermonuclear explosion.

An immediately comprehensible graphic design showed how near the world was to blowing itself to smithereens in a global nuclear war.

When Francis Mariani, 59, was blown to smithereens in 2009 by a bomb concealed under his car, he left a considerable fortune built on bank heists and racketeering.

Six years into the 21st century, fanatics are strapping on suicide belts and blowing themselves to smithereens in the name of God.

MythBusters Adam and Jamie pack a boat with 1,000 pounds of explosives and then blow it to smithereens in this new episode.

His son, Josh, was blown to smithereens in the Bali bombing and he wants the Australian government to accept a degree of culpability.

That vivacious, laughing woman, who loved to dance and sing, had been smashed to smithereens in minutes.

You don't have to worry about blowing an alien spaceship to smithereens in this interstellar video game.

"The big comic performance is a very obvious thing to do," said Mr. Coogan, who also appears this summer as a hapless director blown to smithereens in "Tropic Thunder".

There go a few more fingers, blown to smithereens in delight.