Sentence examples for of a smashed from inspiring English sources

As far as many rioters were concerned, society was misbehaving so of course it deserved a smack in the form of a smashed up high street.

It's the junk of urban life cast in bronze: crack pipes (one gold-plated), dead saplings removed from run-down housing estates, kebab machines, the skeleton of a park bench, the frame of a smashed window.

The crucial difference between the hoodie stabbing at the water cannon's tyres and the hoodie leaping out of a smashed up Dixons store in Manchester with a DVD player under his arm is that there is more of a political motive to the former.

He compares the iconoclasm of the English Reformation, when hundreds of medieval carvings of saints and angels in the cathedral were decapitated, stained glass shattered, and acres of wall paintings destroyed, leaving only a few survivors in the crypt, to images of a smashed Starbucks window, the destruction of the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, and a defaced image of Colonel Gaddafi.

You're not driven, you drink more coffee than a narcoleptic night watchman and you have the posture of a smashed fish.

Now I recognized pieces: a corner of a smashed sail, a strand of broken rigging.

The odds of betting wrong are high, but the odds of getting a smashing success are much higher as well.

A 25-foot section of a wing smashed through the roof of a four-story brownstone at 126 Sterling Place.

But, still, it's a tiny statue of a monkey smashing a TV.

They were just as much of a smash out of town.

He built a number of prototypes, but none of his ideas had that indefinable frisson required of a smash hit.