"dashed against" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an action in which something is thrown forcefully against something else, often resulting in breaking or destruction. For example, "The waves dashed against the rocks with a thunderous roar."
It could yet be dashed against the rocks by setbacks in Congress for fiscal austerity.
BABIES' skulls dashed against rocks; attempts to twist off the heads of toddlers.
Which holy scripture urges that the "little ones" of the enemy be dashed against the stones?
Adults were hacked to pieces, and infants dashed against the rocks.
Miss Vanderwal said she felt they instead were trying to avoid being dashed against some rocks.
"He had to have his hopes and his dreams dashed against the rocks," Lawrence said.
Waves dashing against rocks is one of the hoariest of subjects, but if done right it produces a visceral thrill.
"The men appear much Satisfied with their trip, beholding with astonishment the high waves dashing against the rocks & this emence Ocian" Clark wrote.
One particularly fatuous work shows waves dashing against rocks, with a hint of glowering destiny, pointlessly thwarted by a speeding slick of orange meeting a random passage of mint-green, spattered with bubble-gum pink so that you cannot read the ghostly words beneath.
They have now scored only one try in their last three matches, and that - Manu Tuilagi's gather and dash against France - was the consequence of deflection rather than inspiration.
The book covers its subject in 10 chapters: Hoskins uses the first few pages of this chapter as an introduction, beginning with praise for William Wordsworth's A Guide through the District of the Lakes (1810), and from which he quotes a passage in which the reader is asked to envisage "an image of the tides visiting and revisiting the friths, the main sea dashing against the bolder shore".
