Sentence examples for it had smashed from inspiring English sources

It had smashed everything – field maple, hazel – in its unavoidable collapse but, like one of those Indian deities encircled by many limbs, it was an awkward god to kill outright.

In recent seasons Detroit hadn't simply won, it had smashed the Jets' dreams.

The customs agency, which said in a statement that it had "smashed" the ivory smuggling case, reported no arrests.

Hadley thought it would have served Anton Kruppev right if she'd dropped the pumpkin and it had smashed on the brick.

She had sailed the sugar bowl at him; it had smashed against the wall above his head and there was sugar and glass in his hair.

By the time it hit land, it had smashed every record for the lowest barometric pressure and the largest wind field.

Today it has smashed all sorts of records.

The current financial crisis, however, has already proved so severe and so volatile that it has smashed or bypassed a number of important shock absorbers.

They are usually fitted with a time-delay fuze, so that the bomb explodes only after it has smashed through several floors and is deep inside the target building.

It has smashed box-office records around the world and been hailed by critics as a franchise-saver, but there's one high-profile filmgoer who was underwhelmed by Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

"It has smashed our fence down and our dogs are going crazy.