Sentence examples for before the smash from inspiring English sources

Wiser men, too, are separated from their money, subscribing in battalions to the fallacy that they, individually, will get out before the smash comes.

Two years later, a New York Times article noted: "Get-rich-quick and gambling was the bane of our life before the smash"; they were also what caused the "smash" itself in 1929.

Djokovic slices and dices his way to the net, before crashing down the smash.

Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur were Chicago reporters before they wrote the smash hit "The Front Page," which débuted on Broadway in 1928.

But the meeting broke up several hours before the missiles smashed into the camps.

Brodeur, who had been bumped outside the crease by Jokinen seconds before the goal, smashed his stick into the boards.

Several got in the elevators and went back up, two minutes or so before the plane smashed into their floor.

The last message was sent two minutes and 1.86 miles before the Jaguar smashed into an Audi that had clipped the central barrier shortly beforehand and ended up facing the wrong way in the outside lane.

The man then drove east and made it to Brooklyn before the car smashed into another vehicle at Smith and Pacific Streets, where the driver was arrested, the police said.

Arsenal have been skilful in dissuading Cesc Fábregas from returning to Barcelona and Manchester United extracted an amazing U-turn from Wayne Rooney, who told them he wanted to join Manchester City before the Glazers smashed the wage structure to keep him.

Big Brother (is watching you) A term in common usage for a scarily omniscient ruler long before the worldwide smash-hit reality-TV show was even a twinkle in its producers' eyes.