Sentence examples for looking smashing from inspiring English sources

He gate-crashes funerals and Wasikowska bravely battles cancer (looking smashing every step of the way) while teaching him to embrace life again.

Just on the heels of all the buzz about plus-size models like Crystal Renn, Gabby Sidibe, the breakout star of the film Precious, graces the February issue of Harper's Bazaar looking smashing.

SUCCESS RATE Ms. Taube and Ms. Ylvisaker are fashion and society pros, having worked at labels like Cal-vin Klein and Earnest Sewn, not to mention looking smashing in their clothes.

(In the book there's a 1940s photograph of a fresh-faced still-brunet Marilyn Monroe looking smashing in a blue-and-white striped two-piece, a roll of pale flesh at her midsection).

Christine Lahti, looking smashing in a spangly Chanel-ish suit, is the play's predator in chief, a social lioness named Sandra Cabot in her comfortable lair: a beautifully appointed dining room with a table decked out for an intimate dinner for six.

Four or five years ago, on a late-summer day in London, I had lunch with Ms. Westwood, and she arrived looking smashing in a white cotton shirtdress of her own design and a safety-pin necklace, with a single streamer of pins clipped to some charms.

The vibrating bunks, stacked three to a wall; the mournful synthetic covers of the bunks, torn in places and looking smashed, with the webbed look of smashed things; the racing wheels underneath, like ladders of vertebrae being whipped; the sense of abject stinking wetness surrounding a train's journey through the universe all these things filled Shockie with futility.

As for Ms. Weisz, she looks smashing.

"Susan looks smashing," I said.

You look smashing in red.

As usual, she looked smashing.