Sentence examples for smack up from inspiring English sources
verb
To beat up physically.
Their sophistication and breeding ran smack up against the raw optimism and energy of America.
The camera, smack up on leaves or grasses, throws these nearby objects out of focus.
It is a challenge that places us smack up against a kind of foreign competition we have never known before.
Nor could we expand outward: a porch and wheelchair ramp put us smack up against the property line.
These photographs come smack up against the potential for exploitation so hotly debated in the criticism of documentary photography.
He said: "There were the same headlines on the Olympics, smack up to the opening – we're going to be embarrassed by the opening ceremony, we're not going to win medals, and we're wasting all this money.
The importance of a single match (they could go four points clear of Seattle) smacks up against the importance of the rest of the season.
The play, which opens Wednesday on Broadway, starring the British actress Emilia Clarke from HBO's "Game of Thrones," can't help smacking up against memories of the movie.
His latest proposal to overhaul California's water distribution system is smacking up against the same entrenched geographical and business factions that defeated him when he tried to address the problem as governor from 1975 to 1983.
Lawyer, a veteran battle organiser and key figure behind tonight's event, says: 'If an artist is smacking up battles it helps out his image as a wicked rapper.
At first the innate lyricism of the cello smacks up against the harder, cooler timbres of the flute and piano; later, in characteristic Wolpe fashion, such assignments of timbre are reversed.
