Sentence examples for failed to smash from inspiring English sources

But what about the nominees, I hear pretty much nobody cry: well, Laura Mvula went gold with her top 10 album Sing to the Moon; AlunaGeorge's debut album reached No 11, but the singles have failed to smash into the charts.

However Skyfall failed to smash the record set by last year's Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2. The final film in the wizard franchise, in 3D, took £23m in its first weekend.

Having taken a break from pop, however, she returned at the end of last year with the sophisticated R&B shuffle of Work Harder before following that up with August's euphoric Great Escape, the video to which keeps some of that early rebellious spirit (she tries, and fails, to smash up a replica of the Mona Lisa).

Aside from getting a big tick in the corporate social responsibility box, other companies use world record attempts as a way of getting coverage for a particular event or issue and because British people prize gallant failure above all things, it usually doesn't matter too much if you fail to smash the target.

What a fucking seminal tune, I still play it all the time and it never fails to smash up the place.

Only a few things are certain in life: death, taxes, and that Night Slugs never fail to smash apart listeners expectations of what electronic music can achieve.

The analogy doesn't hold entirely: Cook conspicuously failed to break America, and Brand is a smash-hit success there.

Both these women have failed to make smash hits of their Sunday-night reality shows for the same reason their show-business careers never soared: talent alone isn't necessary for success, but the people who do become stars, be it in movies, on television or just in the celebrity fast lane, are the ones who go all out to compensate for their lack of ability.

Many of the 67 passengers on board were reportedly trapped as the train doors failed to open and some smashed windows and jumped from the train to escape.

Shoma Doi's cross found Shibasaki, whose first touch was poor but he was gifted a second attempt when Raphaël Varane failed to clear and he smashed the ball into the net.

The visitors pressed forward after that chance but all hopes of snatching a draw were ended when Bolton failed to clear and Evans smashed a volley into the top corner.